This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in INTERNATIONAL SPECTATOR on 31-01-2022, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03932729.2021.2007610 In July 2015, after intense negotiations with its creditors, Greece received a bailout in exchange for fiscal restraint. The coalition government at that time, led by the left-wing SYRIZA party, elected on the basis of an anti-austerity platform, eventually accepted the prevalent austerity frames of the creditors. Through the aid of Q-method, an analysis of Greek opinion leaders’ views of the negotiation highlights that this outcome can be explained in two different ways. The first posits that the ideological overtones that ruling SYRIZA injected in its negotiation strategy exhibited a lack of socialisation and undermined Greece’s already weak bargaining position. The second focuses on the institutional status quo bias in the Eurogroup in Germany’s favour, which discourages any change in the Eurozone. These two views may have partly been influenced by questions of political accountability.
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Niet de ECB maar de politiek is aan zet voor het doorbreken van de deflatoire spiraal in de Eurozone.
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De EMU is volgens Jaap de Zwaan, de nieuwe Haagse lector Europese Integratie, eigenlijk alleen maar een MU, want gemeenschappelijk economisch beleid is er nooit gekomen. Als het aan hem ligt, wordt de EU gewoon een aparte staatsvorm. [tekst van een kort interview met Jaap de Zwaan in online nieuwsmagazine ScienceGuide]
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