The EU in ‘perma-crisis’: a case of resilience and assertiveness

Olivier Marty

Chapter 12 in Forecasting, Planning and Strategy in a Turbulent Era, 2025, pp 322-336 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter looks at a series of nine crises characteristic of a state of perma-crisis used by some scholars to describe the EU's current environment. It describes contemporary unstable events the EU faces (ranging from the pandemic to the war in Ukraine, among a series of nine) and argues they have prompted the organization to remain ‘political’ while being ever more ‘responsive’ and ‘assertive’ on the world stage. More importantly, in weathering the ‘perma-crisis’, the EU has been able to prove its ‘resilience’, to anchor the concepts of ‘sovereignty’ and ‘open strategic autonomy’, to have a somewhat greater ‘geopolitical clout’, and to implement ‘sounder economic policies’.

Keywords: EU; Perma-crisis; Eurozone crisis; Brexit; COVID-19; Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035317233
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