CHAPTER 10

An Integrated Framework: Achievements and Challenges Ahead

The crisis kept evolving over time. It was initially confined to the financial sector, but later it impacted the sovereign debt of a few countries and eventually spread to the overall economy of the whole European Union. Similarly, the European vision of how to confront the crisis adapted to these changing circumstances. The first summary documents were quite restricted in their approach, but they evolved into a strategic long-term vision for Europe with a time horizon of 5 or even 10 years. Those are the Blueprint of the Commission and the Four Presidents’ Report of 2012 and the 2015 update in the Five Presidents’ Report (Table 10.1).

With the hindsight provided throughout ...

Get Weathering the Storm now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.