The European Union in Crises or the European Union as Crises? John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez (eds) ARENA Report No 2/14 The European Union in crises or the European Union as crises? John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez (eds) Copyright ARENA and authors ISBN (print) 978-82-93137-46-7 ISBN (online) 978-82-93137-96-2 ARENA Report Series (print) | ISSN 0807-3139 ARENA Report Series (online) | ISSN 1504-8152 Printed at ARENA Centre for European Studies University of Oslo P.O. Box 1143, Blindern N-0318 Oslo, Norway Tel: + 47 22 85 87 00 Fax: + 47 22 85 87 10 E-mail:
[email protected] http://www.arena.uio.no Oslo, May 2014 Cover picture: Rob Ryan, Achilles and the euro, http://robryanstudio.com/ Acknowledgements This report contains revised versions of the papers that were presented at the workshop ‘Europe in crisis, Europe as the crisis?’, that was held in Oslo on 14 and 15 March 2013, and was organized by ARENA Centre for European Studies. We are very pleased to be able to include chapters by Christian Joerges, Michelle Everson, and Hauke Brunkhorst in the report. We are also extremely grateful to Rob Ryan, for his kind permission to reproduce his wonderful illustration Achilles and the euro on the cover. The research that has gone into this report is part of the EuroDiv project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council’s Europe in Transition programme. The workshop took place under the auspices of the project The Norwegian Constitution in a Changing European Context (NORCONE).