Jens Bastian
Jens Bastian is a Visiting Fellow for the Political Economy of Southeast Europe at the University of Oxford’s St Antony’s College and a Senior Economic Research Fellow at The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He previously worked as an investment analyst in private banking and was Chief Economist at the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) from July 2005 to end-2008.
Updated: 28 February 2011
Electoral revolution in Dublin, paralysing strikes in Athens - Europe's most economically fragile member states are reacting differently to drastic austerity budgets and the EU/IMF bailout. But their fates are intertwined if they wish to emerge from the crisis and have a say in the running of the eurozone, writes an economist.