The Euro Crisis and Constitutional Pluralism

European governments, against their initial instincts, invited the International Monetary Fund to design financial rescue programs during the euro crisis in cooperation with the European Commission and European Central Bank. These institutions, known as the “troika,” constitute a regime complex in the parlance of international political economy. This book poses four questions about the regime complex for crisis finance in the euro area: Why did European governments choose this particular mix of institutions? What was the strategy of key member states in directing several institutions to collaborate on lending programs? Why did this arrangement endure despite severe conflicts among the institutions? Should the member states of the euro area “go it alone” by creating a European Monetary Fund? This chapter elaborates on these questions and provides an overview of the book.

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Constitutional Pluralism and Transnational Justice

10.1093/oso/9780198825340.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Alec Stone Sweet ◽

Clare Ryan

Keyword(s):

National Level ◽

Legal Order ◽

Rights Protection ◽

National Courts ◽

European Court ◽

Transnational Justice ◽

Multi Level ◽

Constitutional Pluralism ◽

Combined Impact ◽

Proportionality Principle

In Europe, a cosmopolitan legal order was instantiated through the combined impact of Protocol no. 11 of the ECHR (1998), and the incorporation of the Convention into national legal systems. As a result, two processes—(i) the evolution of constitutional pluralism at the national level; and (ii) the development of rights protection at the transnational level—became causally connected to one another. The first undermined traditional models of domestic orders wherein the notions of constitutional unity and centralized sovereignty reinforced one another. The second process created a multi-level legal system whose effectiveness depends on the extent to which the European Court is able to induce and sustain the cooperation of national courts and officials. The constitutionalization of the proportionality principle, at both the domestic and transnational levels, provided a doctrinal interface for inter-jurisdictional dialogue, and the collective enforcement of the UPR.

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What's Left of the Law of Integration?

10.1093/oso/9780198830610.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Julio Baquero Cruz

Keyword(s):

International Law ◽

Fundamental Rights ◽

Structural Elements ◽

The European Union ◽

Difficult Situation ◽

Court Of Justice ◽

Structural Connections ◽

The Law ◽

Constitutional Pluralism ◽

The Impact

This book discusses the impact of the difficult situation the European Union is currently going through on some structural elements of its legal order, looking for symptoms of decay, exploring examples of resistance, and assessing its overall state of health. The original choices made by the drafters of the Treaties and by the Court of Justice are put in their proper historical perspective, understanding Union law as a tool of civilization, and explaining its current problems, at least in part, as a consequence of the waning of the initial impetus behind integration. The concrete themes to be explored are the following: primacy, the national resistance to it and constitutional pluralism; the preliminary rulings procedure; Union citizenship, equality, and human dignity; the scope of the Charter and the standard of protection of fundamental rights; and the rigidity and fragmentation of the Union system in connection with the recent occasional use of international law as an alternative to Union law. The book looks at the development of the law throughout the decades, inevitably losing much detail, but hopefully also uncovering structural connections and continuities.

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Countering Democratic Backsliding by EU Member States: Constitutional Pluralism and ‘Value’ Differentiated Integration

Swiss Political Science Review ◽

10.1111/spsr.12448 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Richard Bellamy ◽

Sandra Kröger

Keyword(s):

Member States ◽

Eu Member States ◽

Differentiated Integration ◽

Constitutional Pluralism

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Austerity and fragmentation: Dynamics of Europeanization of media discourses in Greece and Italy

Communications ◽

10.1515/commun-2020-2090 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (s1) ◽

pp. 864-892

Author(s):

Cristiano Bee ◽

Stavroula Chrona

Keyword(s):

Financial Crisis ◽

Qualitative Analysis ◽

National Level ◽

Emergency Situation ◽

Media Representations ◽

Euro Crisis ◽

Public Spheres ◽

Fragmentation Dynamics ◽

Communication Practices ◽

Media Discourses

AbstractThis article investigates media representations of the European financial crisis in Greece and Italy. We study the Euro crisis as an ‘emergency situation’ with domino effects, where media played a central role in shaping communication practices at the national level as well as between the two countries. Drawing upon vertical and horizontal dynamics of Europeanization, we map the convergences and divergences in media discourses that surround the period 2011–2015. In doing so, we elaborate a qualitative analysis of newspaper articles focusing, in particular, on the themes of austerity and the fragmentation of Europe. Our argument suggests that national public spheres in times of transnational crisis become increasingly nationalized; yet under certain circumstances such as when the supranational infrastructure is the target of blame, they converge, opening the path toward a transnational discursive dialogue.

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Can the Post-Communist Democracies Survive a Continuation of the Euro-Crisis?

Orbis ◽

10.1016/j.orbis.2013.02.002 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 57 (2) ◽

pp. 217-231

Author(s):

Adrian A. Basora

Keyword(s):

Euro Crisis

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