This special episode of Cross-Border Talks is devoted to an outstanding study prepared under the auspices of transform!europe, entitled "Hundred Shades of the EU — Mapping the Political Economy of the EU Peripheries ".
We invited two of three co-authors of the book: historian and journalist Veronika Susova-Salminen and economist Giuseppe Celi to speak about European South and East. They explain reasons behind permanent crises and difficulties faced by Southern and Eastern states of the community, explaining also how the structure of the community does not help them to 'catch up' with richer central states in terms of welfare and development. They also look for ways of development of the whole Europe which do not deepen the inequalities between peripheries and the centre. After all, often in the history of humanity those were people from the periphery who came up with courageous, revolutionary ideas, and advocated a real change.
The whole study "Hundred Shades of the EU — Mapping the Political Economy of the EU Peripheries", a free e-book and summaries in multiple languages, can be found here: https://www.transform-network.net/publications/issue/hundred-shades-of-the-eu-mapping-the-political-economy-of-the-eu-peripheries/
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