Currency of Solidarity - Constitutional Transformation During the Euro Crisis

Analyses the European Union's constitutional transformation during the euro crisis, especially the interaction between politics and the ECJ in its materialization.

List of contents

Prologue; Part I. Solidarity between the Member States: 1. The concept of solidarity; 2. Solidarity between the member states; Part II. The Original Stability Conception: 3. Committing to stability; 4. Law and economic wisdom; Part III. The New Stability Conception: 5. The shift in solidarity; 6. Contractual change and central bank action; 7. Reconciling the contract with the treaties; 8. Conclusion: Preserving the contract in an emergency; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Vestert Borger is Assistant Professor of European Union Law at Leiden University and was previously Niels Stensen Fellow at Yale Law School between 2019 and 2020. He specialises in the law on the single currency and constitutional law and received the 2019 European Law Faculties Association Thesis Award for his dissertation on the transformation of the euro.

Summary

This book examines the informal constitutional change – or transformation – of the European Union during the euro crisis and the interaction between political leaders and the European Court of Justice in its materialization. It is essential material for scholars or practitioners dealing with EU constitutional law and the single currency.

Product details

• Authors: Vestert Borger, Vestert (Universiteit Leiden) Borger
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781108836364
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83636-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy; Cambridge Studies in European
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; LAW / International, Legal Reference / Law Profession, International Economics, Political Economy, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, Monetary Economics, EU (European Union), International institutions, EU & European institutions, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general