Heading South: Rethinking the Eurozone The Ulysses Study Ricardo Cabral, Mário Alves, Ricardo Paes Mamede, Sandro Mendonça, João Seixas, Viriato Soromenho-Marques Heading South: Rethinking the Eurozone Heading South: Rethinking the Eurozone Authorship Ricardo Cabral(i),1, Mário Alves(ii), Ricardo Paes Mamede(iii), Sandro Mendonça(iv), João Seixas(v), Viriato Soromenho-Marques(vi) Affiliations (i) Universidade da Madeira, (ii) Consultant, (iii) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, (iv) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, (v) FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, (vi) FL-Universidade de Lisboa 12 December 20172 1 Corresponding author: Universidade da Madeira, Colégio dos Jesuítas - Rua dos Ferreiros 9000-082, Funchal, Portugal, e-mail:
[email protected]; Tel: +351 291 209 403. 2 This report is the outcome of a call for proposals for a study on a Ulysses Project for the relaunch of the peripheral economies of the Eurozone (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain), project sponsored by the former member of the European Parliament, Rui Tavares. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Greens/EFA Group of the European Parliament (“Green New Deal Working Group”), which funded the Ulysses Project. This original text revises, updates and expands an earlier December 2014 version of the report, which was never published. The responsibility for the opinions or any errors remains solely with the authors. 1 Heading South: Rethinking the Eurozone Conteúdo 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................