Making the Emu - The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance Enforcement of Maastricht

Zusatztext Savage presents his empirical evidence in a convincing and readable style...an extremely enlightening book. Klappentext The Maastricht Treaty and the Stability Growth Pact demand that EU member states comply with their famous deficit and debt requirements of 3 and 60 per cent of GDP. Yet, how can the EU's leaders be certain that these targets are met? Is a 3 per cent deficit in Belgium equivalent to one in Italy or France? Making the EMU explores how the Treaty's budgetary surveillance procedure monitors member state budgetary policies, harmonizes their budgetary data, and effectively determines which member states qualified for member status and are subject to the Pact's sanctions. This book provides the first examination of how the EU entrusted the credibility of these critical budgetary figures to a relatively minor European Commission agency, and what effect the surveillance proceudre has on the making of the EMU and the enforcement of Maastricht. Zusammenfassung Tackles the debates surrounding the creation of EMU. Examining the politics of the European Commission and its management of Maastricht Treaty's budgetary surveillance procedure, this book provides insights into processes by which specific member states qualified for EMU status and became subject to the sanctions of the Stability and Growth Pact. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Enforcing Maastricht: The Significance of Treaty Surveillance 2: Treaty Delegation and the Institutional Structure of Surveillance 3: Designing a Compliance Information System: ESA and the Techniques of Surveillance 4: European Statistical Case Law for Stage II of Convergence 1994-97 5: European Statistical Case Law for Stage III Monetary Union 1998-2004 6: Credibility, Institutionalization, and Europeanization Appendix: Other Eurostat Sage II Decisions 1995-97

Produktdetails

• Autoren: J D Savage, J. D. Savage, James D Savage, James D. Savage, James D. (Professor of Politics and Assist Savage, Savage James D.
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 09.12.2004
• EAN: 9780199278404
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927840-4
• Seiten: 256
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political science & theory, Regional Studies, Political Economy, Regional / International studies, Political science and theory, EU (European Union), International institutions, EU & European institutions