The European Council as a Crisis Manager - The EU's Fiscal Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Verlag | Nomos |
Auflage | 2022 |
Seiten | 160 |
Format | 16,8 x 0,8 x 23,0 cm |
Gewicht | 250 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | Studies on the European Union 19 |
ISBN-10 | 3848784378 |
EAN | 9783848784370 |
Bestell-Nr | 84878437A |
Faced with the deepest economic crisis in its history, the European Union established a seminal COVID-19 recovery package relying on common debt. This book analyses the European Council's key role as a crisis manager and transformative force of the EU system. Combining thick descriptions of the history-making events of 2020-21 with EU theorising, we explain and critically assess the innovative set-up of the recovery package. Inside the European Council, we find a remarkable impetus for political consensus among national leaders. However, their detailed and ambiguous decisions at times came at the cost of political delay, legal uncertainty, and thin public scrutiny.