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Until not so many years ago, the EU economic and the monetary policies were quite snubbed fields of research by the majority of the legal doctrine, although with some excellent exceptions. The same two policies are today at the core of a wide constitutional debate, which involves essential issues such as democracy, fundamental rights, national sovereignty and institutional competences.
This debate concerns the aims, the tools and the methods of those two policies, that are formally separate, and submitted to different rules, but in practice strictly intertwined and reciprocally influencing. Opposite values are increasingly confronted: effectiveness vs. legitimacy, solidarity vs. responsibility, and loyal cooperation vs. vital national interests.
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- 1.
On the application to the EMU of the principle of solidarity—affirmed by Articles 2 TEU, 122 TFEU and by many other provisions of the EU Treaties, see Mc Donnell (2014), pp. 57–92.
- 2.
See the suggestions advanced by Smits, p. 51 et seqq and Martines, p. 141 et seqq.
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See the contributions of Starita, p. 3 et seqq; Martucci, p. 27 et seqq; De la Parra, p. 101 et seqq.
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See Lionello, p. 179 et seqq; Fasone, Fromage, p. 161 et seqq; Simone, p. 195 et seqq.
- 5.
See Allemand, p. 73 et seqq.
- 6.
See Fabbrini, p. 121 et seqq.
- 7.
See Cafaro, p. 217 et seqq; Peroni, p. 249 et seqq.
- 8.
See Bassan, p. 235 et seqq.
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See Viterbo, p. 267 et seqq; Cisotta, p. 283 et seqq.
- 10.
See Ortino, p. 299 et seqq; Ruccia, p. 319 et seqq.
- 11.
See Baratta, p. 353 et seqq; Pace, p. 371 et seqq.
- 12.
See Ruffert, p. 335 et seqq.
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Mc Donnell A (2014) Solidarity, flexibility and the Euro crisis. In: Rossi LS, Casolari F (eds) The EU after Lisbon. Springer, Berlin, pp 57–92
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Rossi, L.S. (2017). Economic and Monetary Policies as Essential Elements of the EU Constitutional Debate. In: Daniele, L., Simone, P., Cisotta, R. (eds) Democracy in the EMU in the Aftermath of the Crisis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53895-2_21
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