The Financial Constitution of European Integration: Follow the Money?

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The Financial Constitution of European Integration: Follow the Money?

By Ruth Weber
Hart Publishing June 2025

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9781509969951
Publisher
Hart Publishing
Publication
June 2025
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Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This open access book delivers a much-needed analysis of the relationship between the EU financial constitution and democracy in the multi-level system.

The economic rescue package NextGenerationEU has multiplied the EU's financial volume and thereby raised the question of the state of European integration anew. This open access book 'follows the money' and surveys the financial constitution of European integration from the perspective of law, political economy, and history.

Structured into three thematic parts, the book focuses on past and present developments of the fiscal structure of the EU as well as potential future outcomes. It raises an array of questions that are answered from different disciplinary perspectives and through the eyes of academia and practice: can underlying design flaws of the European Monetary Union be identified? What about the legality and the economic implications of the innovative policy-making at the EU level in response to the COVID-19 pandemic? Which role do economic crises play as a turning point for European integration?

Table of Contents

Introduction: Follow the Money? Ruth Weber (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

Part 1: Design Flaws of the European Monetary Union?
1. Does The ECB Care About Inflation? Sir Paul Tucker (Harvard Kennedy School, USA)
2. Inventing The Asymmetrical Monetary Union, Christian Neumeier (Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin, Germany)
3. The Debate On The Revision Of The European Fiscal Rules: Towards More Political Governance Of The EMU? Claire Mongouachon (Aix-Marseille Université, France)
4. Covid-19, War And The End Of Neoliberalism, Thomas Biebricher (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main, Germany)

Part 2: Innovative Law-Making on the Edge Of Legality?
5. Follow The Money, Follow The Values, Alberto De Gregorio Merino (The Legal Service Of The Council Of The European Union, Belgium)
6. When Size Matters: On The Legality Of The Recovery Instrument 'Next Generation EU' In Light Of Its Unprecedented Volume, Claudia Wutscher (Vienna University Of Economics And Business, Austria)
7. The Solidarity Framework: Towards a New Pillar of the EMU? Francesco Martucci (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France)
8. Constitutional Imaginaries Of Solidarity: Framing Fiscal Integration Post-NGEU, Päivi Leino-Sandberg (University Of Helsinki, Finland)

Part 3: Integration through Financial Constitution?
9. Budgeting For Success: How A Series Of Budgetary Breakthroughs Underpinned The EC/EU's 1980s Boom, N Piers Ludlow (London School Of Economics And Political Science, UK)
10. The Integration Surplus Of The EU's Budgetary Law – Or 'No Representation Without Taxation'? Frank Schorkopf (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
11. Integration Through Funding: The Union's Finances As Policy Instrument, Bruno De Witte, Maastricht University/European University Institute, the Netherlands)
12. Investment Politics: A New Capacity To Project Union Action Into The Future? Luuk Van Middelaar (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

Epilogue: Money, Money, Money, Matthias Ruffert (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
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