Report on the State of the European Union

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: From Crisis to Sustainability

   1. Introduction: From Crisis to Sustainability

      • Jacques Le Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

      Pages 1-4

3. Is Governance Sustainable?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. The Democratic Paradox of the EU

      • Jacques Le Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

      Pages 7-19

   3. The State of EU Economic Governance: Not Learning from Previous Mistakes?

      • Jacques Le Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

      Pages 20-40

4. Is the State Sustainable?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Taxation in the EU: Fiercer Competition?

      • Jacques Le Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

      Pages 43-57

   3. Public Debts: Sustainability at Any Cost?

      • Jacques Le Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

      Pages 58-73

   4. The European Budget: Seven Years of Stillness?

      • Jacques Le Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

      Pages 74-90

5. Is Inequality Sustainable?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Domestic Inequality in the European Union

      • Jacques Le Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

      Pages 93-104

   3. Inequality between Countries: An Ever More Heterogeneous Union?

      • Jacques Le Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

      Pages 105-122

6. Is the Environment Sustainable?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. The EU as a Global Ecological Leader

      • Jacques Le Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

      Pages 125-138

   3. Energy and Climate Policy on the Road to Paris 2015

      • Jacques Le Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

      Pages 139-153

   4. The EU “Beyond GDP”

      • Jacques Le Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

      Pages 154-167

7. Back Matter

   Pages 169-172

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This volume is the fourth instalment of the 'Report on the state of the European Union' series. Its shows that if the EU does not want to be ruled by crisis any longer, it must invest in sustainability, political, economic, social and environmental. Europe must turn this elusive and ever-threatening 'crisis' into a chosen and meaningful transition.

• European Union
• sustainability
• crisis
• economic policy
• energy
• tax
• budget
• environment
• European Union (EU)
• finance
• inequality
• public finance
• transition

• University of Pau (UPPA), Paris, France

  Jacques Cacheux

• OFCE, Sciences Po, Paris, France

  Jacques Cacheux, Eloi Laurent

Jacques Le Cacheux is Professor of Economics at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour. He also teaches economics at Sciences Po (Paris) and Stanford University Program in Paris. He has been an economist at the Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (OFCE) for over three decades. Co-author and co-editor of many papers and volumes with Jean-Paul Fitoussi, including the series of Reports on the state of the European Union. He was one of the rapporteurs of the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission.

Éloi Laurent is Senior Economist at OFCE/Sciences Po. A former aide in the French Parliament and for the French Prime Minister, his current research agenda focuses on environmental sustainability and welfare economics. A former visiting scholar at Columbia University and Harvard University Center for European Studies, he currently teaches at Stanford University and Sciences Po. He was an invited Professor at the University of Montréal and Harvard University.

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