Abstract (may include machine translation)
This paper addresses the insoluable conflict between the letter and spirit of the Lisbon Treaty/TEU 2009 on the one hand and the not-so-creeping supranationalism, that has emerged from a series of crisis-manging measures at the Community level in 2008-2015, on the other. While the TEU is firmly grounded in intergovernmen-talism, the series of ad-hoc innovations translate into an ever-growing supranationalism. The latter is expressed in a programmatic fashion in the Juncker Note of February, 2015. The latter implies a qualitative change in the nature of the EU as we had known before, which was known to be a community of nation-states. The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 and the still looming debt and confidence crises of the EU have triggered a series of measures aimed at pre-empting worse-case scenarios and creating up until now non-existent firefighting mechanisms at the Community level. At the end of the day, federalist arrangements, that have seemed to stand no chance of implementation even a decade ago, have become reality by now. Banking and Fiscal Union/BFU is a done deal –agreed upon at the December 13-14 2012 Council. The only open question is the precise mechanisms of their implementation on the ground.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Nationalstaat und Europäische Union |
Editors | Anthony B. Atkinson, Peter M. Huber, Harold James, Fritz W. Scharpf |
Publisher | Nomos |
Pages | 109-122 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783848717095 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2016 |