<p>Part 1 – The Eurozone as a (non) Optimum Currency Area</p><p>1 STIGLITZ, Joseph. The fundamental flaws in the Euro Zone framework</p><p>2 BONGARDT, Annette and TORRES, Francisco. EMU as a Sustainable Currency Area</p><p>3 ROSSI, Sergio, A structural-reform proposal for a two-speed European monetary union</p><p>4 MONGELLI, Francesco Paolo, PAPADOPOULOS, Georgios, and REINHOLD, Elisa. Are Euro Area economic structures changing?</p><p>5 ANDRADE, João A. S., DUARTE, Adelaide P. S. and SIMÕES, Marta C. N., Differences in human capital and openness to trade as barriers to growth and convergence in the EU</p><p>6 LOUÇÃ, Francisco. Has the euro any future as part of secular stagnation?</p><p>Part 2 – A monetary union relying on fiscal policy coordination: achievements, shortcomings and future perspectives<br></p><p>7 SANTOS, Luís Máximo dos. The European Monetary Union: political motivation</p><p>8 MUET, Pierre-Alain. The great recession of 2012-2014: the monetary union challenged by national egoisms</p><p>9 BELKE, Ansgar. The Fiscal Compact and the Excessive Deficit Procedure - Relics of bygone times?</p><p>10 IOANNIDES, Yannis M.. A Conceptual Framework for Reforms versus Debt in the Context of a Fiscal Union within the European Monetary Union</p><p>11 CABO, Sérgio Gonçalves do. Public debt restructuring in a monetary union: the case of the euro area member states</p><p>Part 3 – New perspectives for macroeconomic stabilizers in the European Union<br></p><p>12 BREUSS, Fritz. The crisis management of the ECB</p><p>13 MENDONÇA, António. Unconventional monetary policy of the ECB and the international economic and financial crisis: efficiency versus exhaustion</p><p>14 CABRAL, Nazaré da Costa. The Eurozone’s Private and Governmental Shock Absorbers: Current Setup and Future Prospects</p><p>15 RODRIGUES, Nuno Cunha and GONÇALVES, José Renato. The European banking union and the Economic and Monetary Union: the puzzle is yet to be completed</p><p>16 BEBLAVY, Miroslav, LENAERTS, Karolien, and MASELLI, Ilaria, The (future) European unemployment insurance and its role as an automatic stabiliser</p><p>Part 4 – A Budgetary Union as a way-out of the EMU crisis: is it possible?<br></p><p>17 AHMAD, Ehtisham and BROSIO, Giorgio. Achieving accountable governance and structural reforms in Europe</p><p>18 MATTHIJS, Herman, The financing of the European Union Budget</p><p>19 KOPITS, George. Toward a Closer Union: Elusive Mirage or Reality within Grasp?</p><p>20 DÍAZ-ROLDAN, Carmen and BAJO-RUBIO, Oscar. The scope for a budgetary union in the European monetary union.</p>