It was the disaster that nearly broke Europe. As the world looked on aghast, the European Union’s totemic and preeminent project, the Euro, lurched from crisis to crisis. In the fourth episode in the series, Luke Cooper investigates the travails of the Eurozone. Focusing on the origins of the Greek tragedy, he argues that we need to place the crisis in its proper context –specifically, the globalisation of financial markets – to understand what went wrong and why.

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Dr Luke Cooper is an associate researcher and consultant at LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think tank of the London School of Economics. He was previously a visiting fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM), Europe’s Futures programme (2018 – 2019). His book, Authoritarian Contagion, will be published by Bristol University Press in June 2021. He is the co-founder of Another Europe Is Possible and co-host of the Another Europe podcase.

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Between Dream and Tragedy is hosted by the Europe’s Futures programme at the IWM and was supported by the ERSTE Foundation and the European Cultural Foundation. For more information on Europe’s Futures go to EuropesFutures.EU.