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Slippery Slope: Europe's Troubled Future Hardcover – 12 May 2016

by Giles Merritt (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford (12 May 2016)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0198757867
  • ISBN-13: 978-0198757863
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 2.5 x 14.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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[Slippery Slope's chief virtue is that, with chapters on Africa, Asia and the digital revolution, it places the EU's challenges in broader global and technological contexts. He rightly emphasises that, for the sake of Europe's younger generations, the vital task is to inject more dynamism into the economy so that Europe, which at times seems to display a "cultural resistance to becoming more innovation-friendly", can hold its own in an increasingly competitive world. (Tony Barber, Financial Times)

Lucid... accessible prose flush with strong argument. (New York Times Book Review)

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Giles Merritt was named by the Financial Times in 2010 as one of 30 'Eurostars' who most influence thinking on Europe's future, along with the European Commission's president and the secretary-general of NATO. For 15 years a Financial Times foreign correspondent, Merritt has reported and commented on European affairs since the early 1970s. He went on to found 'Friends of Europe', one of the leading think tanks in Brussels, and the policy journal Europe's World, of which he is the Editor-in-Chief. His Op-Ed columns in the International Herald Tribune from 1985-2010, and since then in the hundreds of newspapers around the world that subscribe to Project Syndicate, have ranged widely across political and economic issues in Europe. His previous books include WorldOut of Work, an award-winning analysis of unemployment issues, and The Challenge of Freedom, on the difficulties facing post-communist Eastern Europe.

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2.0 out of 5 starsA plug for a single, undemocratic EU state, which we have rightly rejected
By William Podmore on 13 Jun. 2016
Format: Hardcover
Giles Merritt has reported on European affairs since the early 1970s. He founded the think-tank ‘Friends of Europe’ and the policy journal Europe’s World. In this book he puts forward proposals to salvage the EU project.

Europe has 26 million unemployed. Yet a report by the former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez absurdly claimed that Europe needs another 100 million immigrants in the next 40 years. Merritt points out that integrating newcomers of different ethnicities and religions is very difficult.

He notes that in the countries of southern Europe, only one woman in two has a paid job, compared to 70 per cent in the countries of northern Europe. It is estimated that the additional women entering the US labour force in the last 40 years pushed the GDP 25 per cent higher than it would have been otherwise.

The soaring costs of child care deter women from going into paid work. A UK study found that pre-school child care costs a couple more than average mortgage repayments: it costs more to be a working mother than to keep a roof over the family’s heads. So countries need to subsidise child care. Pay inequality also deters women from going into paid work.

Merritt admits that “The EU’s institutions are dysfunctional and poorly organized. … Distant, remote, inscrutable, politically unanswerable, untouched by the new austerity, and seemingly indifferent to criticism, the EU’s institutions have increasingly fewer friends for even sympathetic ears.” He rightly calls the European elections of 2014 ‘a massive rejection of the EU’.

He criticises all three of the EU’s leading bodies. He remarks that he Council of Ministers operates in secret, with no public record of its speeches or votes.Read more ›
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