The Eurozone Crisis: A Constitutional Analysis (Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy)
Cambridge University Press, 1/9/2014
EAN 9781107649453, ISBN10: 1107649455
Paperback, 300 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
Topical and timely, this book offers an economically informed constitutional analysis on European responses to the crisis. It discusses the longer-term proposals on the table including rescue measures and stability mechanisms, as well as the tightening of European economic governance. The authors see the European constitution as a multidimensional and multi-temporal process of constitutionalisation. They examine how the crisis has catapulted the economic constitution back to the 'pacemaker' position from where it determines developments in the political and social dimensions. However, now the key role is not played by the constitution of 'microeconomics', focusing on free movement and competition law, but the constitution of 'macroeconomics', introduced in Maastricht.
Part I. Setting the Scene
1. Introduction
framework of the analysis
2. Two layers of the European economic constitution
3. Towards the crisis
an economic narrative
4. Responses to the crisis
Part II. Constitutional Mutation
5. Constitutionality of European measures
6. Realignment of the principles of the macroeconomic constitution
7. Democracy and social rights
Part III. What Next?
8. Initiatives on the table.