ABSTRACT
The crisis in the Eurozone has brought about calls for reform in the European Union (EU)
as well as in the member states. The Eurozone crisis was the consequence of a sustained
series of political choices and strategies at the EU level over the past 30 years that
established patterns of inequality and divergence at the national regional and global levels
(Aglietta 2012). These were reinforced by the sovereign debt crisis and the European
recession (Lapavitsas et al. 2012). As a consequence, all of the Eurozone economies find
their economic sovereignty compromised, having submitted to the discipline of the 2012
Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance. While the burden of pain has been
shared in different ways, fundamental questions relating to EU membership continue to be
asked (Zielonka 2014).
