The Delphic Oracle on Europe Is there a Future for the European Union?

The Delphic Oracle on Europe brings together leading thinkers and policy-makers from different academic disciplines and policy-oriented backgrounds from all over Europe. The chapters reflect on ways forward for the European Union (EU) in a time of global crisis and profound change. Contributors debate the institutional and political consequences of the Lisbon Treaty, the reform of economic governance in light of the economic and financial crisis, and Europe's global role in a rapidly changing international and regional environment. The volume is divided into three parts: Part I focuses on the Union's institutions and the question of leadership in an EU27+. Part II concentrates on the key elements of a new international socio-economic consensus. And Part III discusses the stakes in the agonising search for the EU's global role in a post-Lisbon and post-crisis world. A substantial concluding chapter pulls the themes of the volume together and looks to the future. The list of contributors includes a number of leading thinkers and policy-makers: Josep Borrell Fontelles, Jonas Condomines Beraud, Olaf Cramme, Janis A. Emmanouilidis, Dieter Helm, Philippe Herzog, Jolyon Howorth, Zaki Laidi, Roger Liddle, Pier Carlo Padoan, André Sapir, and Loukas Tsoukalis.

1 - Introduction
2 - Implementing the Lisbon Treaty
3 - In Search of Leadership
4 - The Future Role of the European Parliament
5 - Europe's Growth: A Sceptical View
6 - Green Growth: Opportunities, Challenges and Costs
7 - Crisis and the Governance of the Euro Area
8 - The Political Economy of the Single Market
9 - The Future of Social Europe
10 - Why the EU Needs a Grand Strategy
11 - Is Europe Risk Averse?
12 - The Leitmotiv of a Global Europe
13 - The Delphic Oracle on Europe

Loukas Tsoukalis is Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission. He is Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens, President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. He is member of advisory councils of several European think tanks and international journals. is author of many books and articles on European and international affairs, including The New European Economy and What Kind of Europe?, which were published by Oxford University Press and translated into several European languages. Janis A. Emmanouilidis has published widely on the European Union's overall political and institutional development, the perspectives of differentiated integration in an EU 27+, the Union's foreign, security and defence policy, and on EU enlargement. He is a Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre in Brussels. He has been an advisor of various governments, EU institutions, European parties and NGOs on a broad range of issues related to European integration and has commentated widely on EU affairs in the media.