The European Financial Crisis. Constitutional aspects and implications

By Kaarlo Tuori

Abstract

With its provisions on the EMU, the Maastricht Treaty introduced a new, ’macroeconomic’ layer into the European economic constitution. [...] The present constitutional crisis should not merely be conceived in economic terms. It extends to the political and social dimensions; it also affects democracy and transparency, as well as social values and rights 

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