One of the most significant phenomena nowadays remains the European crisis. Under the metaphor and theoretical concept of the “perfect storm”, the story of the European crisis reveals the interconnection between multiple national and international dimensions and dynamics. Any crisis, being a “total social phenomenon”, as classical French sociologist Émile Durkheim, would have said, affects all the levels of our lives–be they political, economic, cultural or social. Nothing remains untouched, but what is old, and what is new in the EU of today?

This volume offers an answer to this question, demonstrating that old issues remain without solution (even if they seem “forgotten” for the public attention or the political agenda), that new challenges infiltrated our lives, and finally, the conclusion is that the crisis tends to be the “opposite” of its primary meaning: it is no longer an acute and short moment in the existence of any entity, but it becomes a permanence, reaching each day new ramifications.