1. Institutional illusion and financial entrepreneurship in the European debt scheme -- 2. A stock-taking of the impact of the crisis -- 3. The Irish economic 'miracle' : Celtic tiger or Bengal kitten? -- 4. Europe's unemployment crisis : some hidden relief? -- 5. Europe's crisis of accounting -- 6. Solvency II and the European sovereign debt crisis : the case of misplaced prudence -- 7. The Eurosystem : costs and tragedies -- 8. Fiscal stimulus, financial ruin -- 9. From German rules to European discretion : policy's slippery slope -- 10. The Euro as a hindrance to recovery? A comparative analysis of the Czech Republic and Slovakia -- 11. Compounding agricultural poverty : how the EU's Common Agricultural Policy is strangling European recovery