European integration efforts are on the brink of collapse. In its current state, the European Monetary Union is unintentionally acting more as a dis-integration factor than as a unifying element. Dirk Meyer provides descriptions, analyses and background information on the current crisis. The book is the result of more than ten years of work on the subject.

The content

• Why is the policy of no alternatives so dangerous?
• What does "crisis policy" mean and why do its consequences have a disintegrative effect?
• What are the costs of the low interest rate policy?
• How much debt relief did Greece really get?
• To what extent do additional money emitted by the national central banks and the ECB's bond-purchasing programmes endanger the unity of the monetary union?
• Vol. II: Scenarios for the Future of the Euro

Autorentext

Prof. Dr. Dirk Meyer has taught regulatory economics at Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg since 1994. He was involved in two constitutional challenges against Greek bailout I and the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism EFSF in 2010. Together with colleagues, he wrote the appeal "The euro must not lead to a liability union" in 2018. As one of the main complainants against the EU loan financing of the Covid-19 reconstruction package NextGenerationEU , he joined the lawsuit of the "Bündnis Bürgerwille" in 2021.