A wonderfully written, thoughtful contribution to the ongoing discussion of EMU reform... The book is absolute first-class state-of-the-art EMU literature. Developments since its publication (such as Gauweiler and the BVerfG subsequent ruling of 21 June 2016) do not reduce its value at all. Rather, the reader will be in a position to better assess the importance and effects of these ... Read moredecisions. In sum, the work is ideal reading for EU constitutional lawyers interested in how the euro area crisis affects them and for EMU lawyers interested in how constitutional law is relevant to EMU. For both, it is a 'must'!
Christoph Herrmann, Common Market Law Review
The Euro Area Crisis in Constitutional Perspective by Alicia Hinarejos represents the rich constitutional perspective which has evolved since the eruption of the crisis... As mentioned in the book, one of the most essential lessons the euro crisis has taught us is that fiscal and economic integration is not about numbers and economics only. Quite the opposite: fiscal and economic integration should be reviewed against the wide and manifold constitutional background... The Euro Area Crisis in Constitutional Perspective is a rich constitutional analysis of fiscal and economic integration during and after the euro area crisis. Structural transformations are traced, identified and explicated in a precise manner. The book offers a wide variety of constitutional perspectives which future constitutional scholarship can rely on.
Jussi Jaakkola, European Law Review
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