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Abstract enThis article examines the relevance of the Normative Power EU hypothesis by taking the EU’s responses in the face of the Eurozone crisis as an empirical case, a litmus test for the EU’s normativity claims. Based on a critical, systematic investigation of the EU/IMF financial assistance programmes provided to crisis-hit members, this study argues that neoliberalism embedded in the EU has reached a new stage and has become equipped with very elaborate surveillance and coercion mechanisms. After a five year long disappointing history of neoliberal austerity, serious questions of democratic accountability, solidarity, and deliberative democracy have been raised. Today, the EU is not convincing in its claim to challenge deregulated globalisation and the Normative Power EU argument seems more and more contested than ever

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