{"id":22896,"date":"2016-12-09T08:16:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T08:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/the-eus-identity-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:29:38","slug":"the-eus-identity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/the-eus-identity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU&#8217;s Identity Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Evangelos Koulis, Analyst KEDISA<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;Growth must become Europe\u2019s number one economic priority&#8221; (Sapir, 2006:370).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dysfunctional labour market and social policies are not only a threat to globalization and the single market, they also endanger the currency union. Any European country is bound to suffer from structural changes if its markets are inflexible&#8221; (Sapir, 2006:370).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The modernisation of labour markets and labour mobility need to be encouraged to allow\u00a0 greater adaptability to change by breaking down existing barriers&#8221; (European Council, 2001:16).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kedisa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/The-European-Union---s-identity-crisis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Read the full analysis in PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Evangelos Koulis, Analyst KEDISA Introduction &#8220;Growth must become Europe\u2019s number one economic priority&#8221; (Sapir,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22897,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22896\/revisions\/22897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}