This volume is the fourth instalment of the ''Report on the state of the European Union'' series. Its shows that if the EU does not want to be ruled by crisis any longer, it must invest in sustainability, political, economic, social and environmental. Europe must turn this elusive and ever-threatening ''crisis'' into a chosen and meaningful transition.

This volume is the fourth instalment of the ''Report on the state of the European Union'' series. Its shows that if the EU does not want to be ruled by crisis any longer, it must invest in sustainability, political, economic, social and environmental. Europe must turn this elusive and ever-threatening ''crisis'' into a chosen and meaningful transition.