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Euro crisis responses and the EU legal order : increased institutional variation or constitutional mutation?
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The Euro crisis reforms as major example of interstitial institutional change in the EU as mentioned in this paper, and forms of institutional change : unusual sources of law, new tasks for the EU institutions, new organs, competence creep, institutional hybrids, and more differentiated integration.Abstract:
Euro crisis reforms as major example of interstitial institutional change in the EU - Forms of institutional change : unusual sources of law, new tasks for the EU institutions, new organs, competence creep, institutional hybrids, and more differentiated integration - Question whether some or all of this amounts to a ‘constitutional mutation’ of the EU legal order - Reasons to doubt whether the constitutional fundamentals have changed - Alternative thesis: increased institutional variation, deepening the differences between EMU law and the rest of EU law.read more
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The Constitutional (Im)balance between ‘the Market’ and ‘the Social’ in the European Union
TL;DR: An assessment of the balance between "the market" and "the social" by reference to the areas of social policy, the internal market and economic governance is given in this article, where the authors propose to address the imbalance by reinforcing the role of the EU legislative process and limiting other forms of European integration.
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The European Constitution and the Eurozone Crisis: A Critique of European Constitutional Pluralism
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National Parliaments and EU Fiscal Integration
TL;DR: The impact of the euro crisis on national parliaments and their response to the deepening of EU fiscal integration and the corresponding limitation of their budgetary autonomy is examined in this article, where the authors argue that the sovereign debt crisis has provoked the emergence of new channels of parliamentary involvement in EU economic governance.
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Integration through the disintegration of law? The ECB and EU constitutionalism in the crisis
TL;DR: The European Central Bank (ECB) has been used to stabilize the euro without having its mandate formally enlarged, thus confirming the ascendency of technocratic, and often ad hoc, governance over democratically and legally circumscribed alternatives.
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Political differentiation and the problem of dominance: segmentation and hegemony
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that political differentiation may cause dominance in the form of decisional exclusion and the pre-emption of political autonomy in the Eurozone, and that the effect of political differentiation on the possibility of self-rule is examined.
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