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  • A New Europe Will Be Born in the Periphery? 100 Shades of the EU

  • By Veronika Sušová-Salminen , Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat , Giuseppe Celi | 12 Dec 22 | Posted under: EU Peripheries , Southern Europe , Central and Eastern Europe , Education and Research

  • This special episode of Cross-Border Talks is devoted to a study prepared under the auspices of transform! europe, entitled "Hundred Shades of the EU — Mapping the Political Economy of the EU Peripheries". Two of the three of our co-authors working on the study were invited to the Cross-Border Talks interview.

    The study is based on the interdisciplinary approaches taken from economics, political science, sociology, and history. It pays attention to the interplay between the economic system, the political sphere as well as the cultural and ideological dimension of peripherality. The core and periphery dynamics represent a perspective that analyses power inequalities and dependencies. The study focuses on two peripheries in the European Union: Southern Europe (the South), as well as Central Eastern and South-East Europe (the East) - i.e., 17 EU Member States. The key aim is to understand how core-periphery dynamics shape the EU.

    Historian and journalist Veronika Sušová-Salminen and economist Giuseppe Celi talk about European South and East and illustrate reasons behind permanent crises and difficulties faced by Southern and Eastern states of the EU, explaining also how the structure of the EU 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 eBook and summaries in multiple languages, can be found here.

    [Update 26/06/2023] The transcript of the podcast episode has been published on the Cross-Border Talks website.

     

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    Speakers:
    Veronika Sušová-Salminen, Senior researcher responsible for the Central East Europe countries group. MA in comparative history, Ph.D. in Anthropology /Charles University in Prague; Specialisation: history and politics of modern Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and post-soviet space; she worked as researcher at the Centre of Global Studies (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences) and is currently as editor-in-chief of webzine !Argument.

    Giuseppe Celi, Senior researcher responsible for the Southern Europe countries group. Italian economist, currently Associated Professor of Economics in the University of Foggia. Coordinator of the Ph.D. Programme in Economic Theory at the University of Foggia and Italian Coordinator of the MA Programme Erasmus Mundus Economics of International Trade and European Integration. Recently published, together with other authors, the book Crisis in the European Monetary Union. A core-periphery perspective.

    The interview was conducted by:  Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat, independent Polish journalist and co-founder and director of the Cross-Border Talks media project.

    Originally published on the Cross-Border Talks YouTube channel.

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