The future of Europe and the euro. Not such a happy anniversary

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On Europe Day 2010 (9 May 2010) PressEurop published this editorial highlighting the challenges facing the European Union on its 60th anniversary. Other articles looking at these challenges will be subsequently published and listed as related url hyperlinks in this ESO record.

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CEPS: Will EMU survive? http://www.ceps.eu/node/3016

EurActiv, 11.5.10: Key lawmaker calls for European growth convention http://www.euractiv.com/en/euro/key-lawmaker-calls-for-european-growth-convention-news-494051

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9.5.10: The union isn’t dead yet (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/247661-union-isn-t-dead-yet

ESO: Background information: Can the Euro be Saved? http://www.europeansources.info/record/can-the-euro-be-saved/

ESO: Background information: Europe unravels in a tangle of national interests http://www.europeansources.info/record/europe-unravels-in-a-tangle-of-national-interests/

ESO: Background information: More integration and cooperation is way forward for Europe, IMF Chief says http://www.europeansources.info/record/more-integration-and-cooperation-is-way-forward-for-europe-imf-chief-says/

ESO: Background information: EU struggles to establish new economic order http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-struggles-to-establish-new-economic-order/

ESO: Background information: Greece triggers an EU identity crisis http://www.europeansources.info/record/greece-triggers-an-eu-identity-crisis/

EurActiv, 10.5.10: Europhiles lead 'economic governance' calls on Europe Day http://www.euractiv.com/priorities/europhiles-lead-economic-governa-news-493991

European Commission: SPEECH/10/225: Statement on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/10/225&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Movement: Press Release, 9.5.10: Statement by the European Movement International on the 60th Anniversary of the Schuman Declaration http://www.europeanmovement.eu/index.php?id=6811&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=3364&tx_ttnews[backPid]=5154&cHash=2be6c4de38

European Policy Centre: A Schuman Declaration for the 21st Century http://www.epc.eu/PDF/SchuDec.pdf

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