In this book, legal scholars from the EU Member States (with the addition of the UK) analyse the development of the EU Member States' attitudes to economic, fiscal, and monetary integration since the Treaty of Maastricht. The Eurozone crisis corroborated the warnings of economists that weak economic policy coordination and loose fiscal oversight would be insufficient to stabilise the monetary union. The country studies in this book investigate the legal, and in particular the constitutional, pre-conditions for deeper fiscal and monetary integration that influenced the past and might impact on the future positions in the (now) 27 EU Member States. The individual country studies address the following issues: - Main characteristics of the national constitutional system, and constitutional culture; - Constitutional foundations of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) membership and related instruments; - Constitutional obstacles to EMU integration; - Constitutional rules and/or practice on implementing EMU-related law; and - The resulting relationship between EMU-related law and national law Offering a comprehensive and detailed assessment of the legal and constitutional developments concerning the Economic and Monetary Union since the Treaty of Maastricht, this book provides not only a study of legal EMU-related measures and reforms at the EU level, but most importantly sheds light on their perception in the EU Member States.

Do individual constitutions, and the legal cultures underlying them, pose an obstacle to future EU integration? This ambitious collections brings together reports from all the European Member States, systematically setting out their individual constitutional guarantees. In doing so, it tracks possible roadblocks to the future evolution of European integration. Written by recognised authorities in each Member State, it offers an authoritative and rigorous overview of the European Union's constitutional landscape. Its single-structure approach allows for comparison while maintaining consistency. It will become the standard reference work for academics, students, and practitioners in the field of European Union Law and integration

This text explores issues of economic and political governance in the European Monetary Union (EMU). Combining the perspectives of economics, law, political science, and historical research, the book provides an up-to-date analysis of the development of the Eurozone and assesses the prospects for the economic and political sustainability of the euro. Based on the revised proceedings of the First Alumni Conference of the European University Institute, Florence, in 2003, the contributors discuss the problem of democratic governance and an alleged democratic deficit in the Eurozone in the wake of the failure of the EU Constitutional Treaty. A further focus is the future of macro-economic cooperation in the framework of the recently reformed Stability and Growth Pact. Will the Eurozone members be able to harmonize their policies so as to avoid a progressive weakening of economic coordination? The third part of the volume deals with the role of the euro as international currency - in particular with regard to the dollar - and as regional anchor for countries in geographical proximity to the EU.

This work provides an up-to-date picture of the constitutional law of the European Union and the law governing forms of co-operation among the Member States, such as common foreign and security policy, police and judicial co-operation in criminal matter, such as schengen. The book begins by describing the pathways for integration in teh EU, outlining the substantive, temporal and territorial jurisdiction of the EU. The authors provide an exposition of the objectives and tasks of the Community, together with an analysis of the principles of legal basis, subsidiarity, proportionality and equal treatment. This is followed by an analysis of substantive European law with particular attention given to the principles of the internal market and EMU.

This text reflects on both past achievements and on the fundamental issues facing further European monetary integration. It includes a copy of the Werner Plan, extracts from the German constitutional court on the ratification of Maastrich and contributions from political figures.

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Cultural Studies - European Studies, grade: 2,3, http://www.uni-jena.de/, course: BA.IWK.P2, “Kulturspezifisches Wissen und Handeln Seminar Zielkultur” “Perspectives on Europe“(146262), language: English, abstract: The European Union is faced with interlinked challenges these days, a financial and social crisis together with an economic and political crisis. Likewise, there is a revive of an authoritarian Russia, a return of the `German problem` in form of a European wide austerity policy, the rise of secessionist movements in Scotland, Catalonia, and other regions, a European refugee crisis, the growing of sceptical voices against the European Union all over Europe and the insecurity that comes with the `Brexit`. Thus, the question arises how to overcome the current weakness, this crisis of confidence within the European system. It is widely discussed how the future Europe will look like and what needs to change. It is beyond dispute that something needs to Changes in order to save the European community. The answer could be a loose confederation or a full political integration, a “United States of Europe” with a centralized Power. In this paper, the federal model of the United States of Europe will be discussed, showing of the difficult situation in Europe nowadays and one out of many solutions for the European future. The idea of a federal Europe is not new and returned in the last few years and was widely discussed in politics, media and the public discussion. The further European integration should, referring to most spokesman, be done as a federal state following the model of the United States of America. It is a hypothetical model which cannot be implemented in short time and should be handled as a long-term project. Treaty changes, or even the approach of a constitution, are difficult and need to be well prepared in long political debates and votes. There are some main advocators of the model, especially in politics, to whom I will mainly refer to and create a comprising insight in this visionary concept. The current crisis reflects that something needs to be changed in the system to save Europe and not to lose all the things that have been achieved past years. The subject is not fully researched, reflecting the idea with different manifestations and variations. It is uncertain whether it will ever take place in Europe, and how exactly it would look like. For further european development the final goal of European Unification needs to be defined.

Nine chapters, presented by Pentecost (economics, Longborough U., UK) and van Poeck (economics, U. of Antwerp, Belgium), comprise the academic lectures given to students at the three-year EU-funded "Intensive Programme on European Monetary Union." The lectures include discussions of the historical background to union, the implications of German monetary unification, the theory of monetary union, monetary policy, fiscal policy, the relation of union to European unemployment, and exchange rate strategies of new EU entrants. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This work invites readers in law, as well as those in political science, international relations, and similar disciplines to witness the fast growing emergence of a "new legal order": the law of the European Union (EU) and European Communities. Ever since its early founding through daring steps in the 1950s, Community law has gone through formidable and complex developments resulting from several enlargements and the expansion of the powers of the Communities. For reasons laid out in this book, the EU as a whole is now a field of major interest and study. This volume deals mostly with issues pertaining to the sovereignty of the member states engaged in the construction of Europe. After presenting a history of the Communities and EU, Levasseur and Scott address topics such as the EU's constitutional principles, its institutions, the sources of law, the legal remedies available, and the relationship between Community law and national legal orders. Comparative law references have been added where appropriate. In addition, this work examines the EU's defense policies and the special relations between the EU and the USA. "We certainly find in [the book] all the qualities of an excellent casebook, where the goal of providing a mass of information does not give way to the goal of stimulating classroom discussion; the goal is always to prefer thought over a mere dogmatic exposition and that, in itself, should earn this book a very large audience, even outside strictly academic circles." -- Xavier Blanc-Jouvan, American Journal of Comparative Law, 2002 "The Levasseur work...does the far superior job of conveying the constitutional and institutional structure of the European Union and the very complex jurisdiction of the courts... What the Levasseur book lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. The Levasseur book is absolutely the better suited to a three-hour (one semester) course or to independent study by practitioners in the field. This much more understandable work uses a European approach to a European subject, while still including an appropriate number of cases as part of the overall presentation." -- On Studying European Law, A Comparative Review of the Two Leading Books, The Tulane European and Civil Law Forum, 2003