This paper examines the democratic legitimacy of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)
since the international financial crisis hit the euro area. From its inception, EMU has been …

This paper sets out to address to what extent and how national parliaments scrutinize the
European Semester process. My central argument is that the European semester constitutes …

How exactly are national parliaments involved in the European Semester? The stronger
coordination of fiscal and economic policies in the European Union (EU) in reaction to the …

Several recent crises and the increasing populism and Euroscepticism across member
states have intensified debates on the nature of the EU. While researchers have looked to …

The Euro-crisis, the subsequent bailout efforts and 'institution-building'have triggered
intense contestation. How these measures have changed the dynamics of integration, but …

This book considers national parliaments' and the European Parliament's role in European
Union (EU) economic governance. It examines the recent strengthening of parliamentary …

When crisis is used as a figurative term to point to the diffuse and complex big picture, it
contradicts the acute and imminent character that originally is inherent to the etymology of …