TY - RPRT

T1 - Legally Recognising the Authority of the Eurogroup

AU - Haagensen, Nicholas

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - The current “semi-intergovernmental” (Keppenne 2014)and legally indeterminate (Takis 2019) form in whichpower is exercised in Europe’s economic governancestructure – an outcome of the Eurozone (EZ) crisis –poses serious challenges to the legitimacy of a socialorder that is purportedly based on legally-constitutedauthority, as expressed in the division of powers atnational and supranational scales and the principles ofrule-of-law and legal certainty in the EU Treaties.In what follows, the focal point of this problem ispinpointed as well as its background and context.Then, the research objective and methodologyused to investigate the conditions of how this legalarrangement developed during the crisis are brieflyoutlined. Finally, the findings are presented, followed byrecommendations.

AB - The current “semi-intergovernmental” (Keppenne 2014)and legally indeterminate (Takis 2019) form in whichpower is exercised in Europe’s economic governancestructure – an outcome of the Eurozone (EZ) crisis –poses serious challenges to the legitimacy of a socialorder that is purportedly based on legally-constitutedauthority, as expressed in the division of powers atnational and supranational scales and the principles ofrule-of-law and legal certainty in the EU Treaties.In what follows, the focal point of this problem ispinpointed as well as its background and context.Then, the research objective and methodologyused to investigate the conditions of how this legalarrangement developed during the crisis are brieflyoutlined. Finally, the findings are presented, followed byrecommendations.

M3 - Report

BT - Legally Recognising the Authority of the Eurogroup

ER -