As part of the "Reinvention of Europe" project, the ECFR is running a series of responses from leading thinkers and academics to Mark Leonard's recent paper, "Four scenarios for the reinvention of Europe". Europe’s decline in global affairs is a process widely assumed to be already in motion — Tony Barber inquires what can be done to stop this descent. From NYRB, Timothy Snyder on how democracy can save Europe. Luca Zarrilli on Iceland and the crisis: Territory, Europe, identity. Georges Prevelakis on Greece and the history behind the collapse. Russell Short on the way Greeks live now. Meet Greece’s new transport minister: Just who are these people whom the EU has put in charge of Greece? James Heartfield on Europe’s soft coup d’etat (and part 2). From The International Economy, Hans-Werner Sinn on the striking similarity between today’s eurozone situation and the end of Bretton Woods; William H. Overholt on the price of German leadership: Having exploited the eurozone, it's fair that Berlin and Frankfurt now pay the price; and a symposium on eurozone austerity: Will the medicine kill the patient? More than twenty important global strategists weigh in. From Socialist Resistance, here is a short history of the euro zone.
