Date: 2013
Type: Working Paper
Law and politics in Europe’s crisis : on the history of the impact of an unfortunate configuration
Working Paper, EUI LAW, 2013/09
JOERGES, Christian, Law and politics in Europe’s crisis : on the history of the impact of an unfortunate configuration, EUI LAW, 2013/09 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/27560
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European Integration was constructed as a primarily economic project. In its formative phase ordoliberal scholars started to promote the understanding of the ensemble of European economic freedoms togther with a system of undistorted competition as the legal framework and normative core of the EEC, i.e. as Europe’s ‘economic’ constitution. Economic and Monetary Union as institutionalized by the Maastricht Treaty were expected to complete this project. However, the whole edifice started to erode immediately after its establishment. Following the financial and the sovereign debt crises, EMU with its commitments to price stability and its focus on monetary politics is by now widely perceived as a failed construction precisely because of its reliance on inflexible rules. The European crisis management seeks to compensate these failures by regime which disregards the European order of competences, des-empowers national institutions and burdens in particular Southern Europe with austerity measures. This new mode of economic governance establishes pan-European commitments to budgetary discipline and macroeconomic balancing. The ideal of an ordering of the European economy ‘through law’ is thereby abolished while the economic and social prospects of these efforts seem gloomy and the Union’s political legitimacy is eroding.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/27560
ISSN: 1725-6739
Series/Number: EUI LAW; 2013/09
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