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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Constitutionalization of European Budgetary Constraints 2014 by Edited by Professor Maurice Adams Edited by Federico Fabbrini Edited by Pierre Larouche
The recently enacted Treaty on the Stability Coordination and Governance of the Economic and Monetary Union (the Fiscal Compact) has introduced a golden rule a detailed obligation that government budgets in the EU be balanced. Moreover it requires the 25 signatories to the Treaty to incorporate this golden rule within their national Constitutions. This requirement represents a major and unprecedented development raising formidable challenges to the nature and legitimacy of national Constitutions as well as to the future of the European integration project. This book analyses the new constitutional architecture of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) examines in a comparative fashion the constitutionalization of budgetary rules in the legal systems of the Member States and discusses the implications of these constitutional changes for the future of democracy and integration in the EU. By combining insights from law and economics comparative institutional analysis and legal theory the book offers a comprehensive survey of the constitutional incorporation of new fiscal and budgetary rules across Europe and a systematic normative discussion of the legitimacy issues. It thus contributes to a better understanding of the Euro-crisis of the future of the EU and the reforms needed towards a deeper and genuine EMU.