European Union failures in Greece and some possible explanations

Bitros, George C. (2013): European Union failures in Greece and some possible explanations.

Abstract

The European Union (EU) failed repeatedly to hold Greece accountable for violations of the Treaties it signed over the past five decades. In particular, the EU not only did not express reservations in the face of these violations, but on two crucial occasions, in 1979 and again in 2000, it even rewarded Greece with concessionary decisions, which contributed significantly to its present calamities. Hence, there arises the following question: How can we explain these EU failures in the case of Greece? The objectives of this paper are twofold: First, to highlight the circumstances which prompted the EU Authorities to treat Greece as a special case, and second, to sketch briefly the rudiments of an answer to the preceding question.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: European integration, Europeanization, financial assis-tance, convergence, institutional failure
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F0 - General > F02 - International Economic Order and Integration; F - International Economics > F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy > F53 - International Agreements and Observance ; International Organizations; F - International Economics > F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy > F55 - International Institutional Arrangements

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