2nd Crisis and Critique Conference: Crises and Critics of the European Union
Institute for Social Sciences, Sakarya University
April 25-26, 2012
Sakarya, Turkey
The European Union (EU) is in many crises. The list is long enough to
include the most recent economic and financial debt crises, the
chronic problems of ‘European Social Model’, new dilemmas of liberty
vs. security, Turkey’s membership conundrum, the daunting rise of
extreme right and various forms of cultural crises such as the social
integration of faith-based or ethnic groups in Europe, the Cartoon