The Eurocrisis forcefully exposed the Euro’s structural deficiencies, which are back in the limelight due to COVID-19. It is widely acknowledged that EU fiscal integration is required to adequately remedy the remaining deficiencies. However, national constitutional authorities limit the scope for EU fiscal integration based on national sovereignty, democracy and parliamentary prerogatives. The result is a fundamental dilemma: effective EU fiscal integration appears necessary to stabilize the Euro and legally impossible due to national constitutional limits.Confronted with this dilemma, this thesis determines the national constitutional space available for EU fiscal integration. Part I includes a comparative assessment of national constituti...
This study investigates national constitutional limits to further EU integration and explores ways t...
This brief contribution outlines some of the puzzling constitutional aspects of the Treaty on Stabil...
At the heart of fiscal rules in the EU is the (in)famous 3%-threshold: countries should avoid deficits...
Defence date: 23 September 2013Examining Board: Professor Hans Wolfgang Micklitz (EUI, Supervisor) ...
The recently enacted Treaty on the Stability, Coordination and Governance of the Economic and Moneta...
In this Policy Contribution, Maria Demertzsis and Guntram B. Wolff discuss three progressive steps f...
The present thesis aims to explore the role and the evolution of tax and fiscal integration (and by ...
The recent ruling of the German Constitutional Court on the ECB was an economic and political bombsh...
[Introduction.] Necessary reforms towards a deepened and increased European shaped economic, financ...
In response to the Eurozone crisis, European Union leaders have undertaken a number of dramatic refo...
While several countries still struggle to return to sustainable growth and Euroscepticism has shown ...
Motivation: Fiscal integration constitutes an important adjustment mechanism to cope with asymmetric...
National constitutional courts are often seen as stumbling blocks to further European integration. I...
More than fifty years after the Schuman Declaration, Europe is still far from a real Political Union...
Defence date: 20 December 2016Examining Board: Professor Stefano Bartolini, (EUI - Supervisor); Pr...
This study investigates national constitutional limits to further EU integration and explores ways t...
This brief contribution outlines some of the puzzling constitutional aspects of the Treaty on Stabil...
At the heart of fiscal rules in the EU is the (in)famous 3%-threshold: countries should avoid deficits...
Defence date: 23 September 2013Examining Board: Professor Hans Wolfgang Micklitz (EUI, Supervisor) ...
The recently enacted Treaty on the Stability, Coordination and Governance of the Economic and Moneta...
In this Policy Contribution, Maria Demertzsis and Guntram B. Wolff discuss three progressive steps f...
The present thesis aims to explore the role and the evolution of tax and fiscal integration (and by ...
The recent ruling of the German Constitutional Court on the ECB was an economic and political bombsh...
[Introduction.] Necessary reforms towards a deepened and increased European shaped economic, financ...
In response to the Eurozone crisis, European Union leaders have undertaken a number of dramatic refo...
While several countries still struggle to return to sustainable growth and Euroscepticism has shown ...
Motivation: Fiscal integration constitutes an important adjustment mechanism to cope with asymmetric...
National constitutional courts are often seen as stumbling blocks to further European integration. I...
More than fifty years after the Schuman Declaration, Europe is still far from a real Political Union...
Defence date: 20 December 2016Examining Board: Professor Stefano Bartolini, (EUI - Supervisor); Pr...
This study investigates national constitutional limits to further EU integration and explores ways t...
This brief contribution outlines some of the puzzling constitutional aspects of the Treaty on Stabil...
At the heart of fiscal rules in the EU is the (in)famous 3%-threshold: countries should avoid deficits...