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The New Economic Governance of the Eurozone - A Rule of Law Analysis

Drawing on the most crucial reforms adopted in the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis to strengthen the economic pillar of the Economic and Monetary Union (Fiscal Compact, Six-Pack, Two-Pack,…), and relying on the subsequent practice of the EU institutions, this PhD project intends to carry out a ‘rule of law’ assessment of the post-crisis economic governance system of the Eurozone, in order to determine if, and to what extent, that system lives up to the EU’s constitutional commitment to the rule of law. More specifically, this assessment intends to: (1) investigate the system’s compliance with the principle of conferral and the competence allocation framework set up by the Treaties, (2) evaluate the internal quality of the key substantive rules on which that system relies, (3) assess the availability of external review for its core outputs and (4) analyze the status of the fundamental rights protection under the new framework.

Date:5 Nov 2018 →  22 Oct 2020
Keywords:Economic and Monetary Union, Eurozone, Economic and Fiscal Policy Coordination and Surveillance, Rule of Law
Disciplines:Law, Other law and legal studies
Project type:PhD project