European Union Between Modernization and Stagnation

Abstract

The volume edited by Loredana Radu, Alina Bârgaoanu and Nicoleta Corbu and entitled The Crisis of the European Union is divided in four sections: the crisis of the European Union, Perspectives on European identity, Perspectives on European citizenship, Perspectives on European Solidarity. The first section, focused on the economic crisis in the European Union, contains the papers of Gabriala Dragan on EU economic governance and the paper of Loredana Radu, Madalina Boțan and Nicoleta Corbu on “core vs. Periphery” of European Union. Gabriela Dragan in the paper EU Economic Governance between the Need for Reform and the Inertia of Status quo points out that interguvernamentalism is at the basis of structure of European Union in times of crisis .