European Union failures in Greece and some possible complications

George Bitros ()

No 201408, Working Papers from Athens University Of Economics and Business, Department of Economics

Abstract: The European Union (EU) failed repeatedly to hold Greece accountable for violations of the Treaties it signed over the past five decades. In particular, the EU not only did not express reserva- tions in the face of these violations, but on two crucial occasions, in 1979 and again in 2000, it even rewarded Greece with concessionary decisions, which contributed significantly to its present cala- mities. Hence, there arises the following question: How can we explain theseEU failures in the case of Greece? The objectives of this paper are twofold: First, to highlight the circumstances which prompted the EU Authorities to treat Greece as a special case, and second, to sketch briefly the rudi- ments of an answer to the preceding question.

Keywords: European integration; Europeanization; financial assistance; convergence; institutional failure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F02 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2014-08
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