Athena’s Spoiled Olives: How Institutional Flaws of the European Union and Greek Politics Shaped a Failing Economy

About the scholar: Sean Hu grew up in Taiwan and attended Pacific American School in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, China

The Research:

Sean’s paper analyzes the causes of Greece’s sovereign debt crisis. He suggests that EU institutions were partially responsible. The Single European Market drove up the price of labor, preventing a balance of trade. The Economic Monetary Union encouraged borrowing at low interest rates, and had no effective way to monitor Greece’s excessive borrowing for deficit spending. When the global recession hit, the EU structure had no way to help Greece’s collapse except through bailouts “at the cost of the Greek people,” resulting in a backlash against integration from other countries whose people feared they might suffer in the same way.

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SkillsPhotography / Media Production
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Project Title

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