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(18) Euro and Monetary Policy
Created on Wednesday, 05 April 2017 07:31 | Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 April 2017 07:31 | 
What is the European Debt Crisis?
Europe in crisis? Despite everything, its citizens have never had it so good
European crisis: The markets are already there
Euro Indictment
The global credit bubble and its bursting during the first decade of the twenty-first century set off a search for the culprits. The investigation is fundamentally historical rather than criminal. The actions and flaws of institutions and individuals are coming under scrutiny. The investigators are also turning to wider social and economic forces which in combination might have been responsible for the disaster.
A search for the causes of economic and financial breakdown has some similarity with the pursuit of the blame for the eruption of war. The analogy is only partial because investigations into the breakdown of peace can lead to indictments of war guilt. The identified person or organisation could be due for punishment (sometimes posthumously in a purely hypothetical court process) for crimes against humanity or lesser charges. Crime and punishment are not at issue in the investigation of the economic debacle.
(35) EU Constitutional Law
Created on Thursday, 16 March 2017 08:50 | Last Updated on Thursday, 16 March 2017 08:51 |
Foreign & security policy at EU level
Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
THE COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY (CFSP)
Under the ToL the intrinsic dualism of the EU’s foreign policy remains in that external action under the TFEU is conducted in accordance with the “EU method” and the CFSP is “subject to specific rules and procedures” (Article 24 TEU), i.e. the intergovernmental method. However, the ToL establishes new institutional arrangements and mechanisms aimed at enhancing the coherence and efficiency of EU external action. Innovations introduced by the ToL aimed at improving the coherence of EU foreign policy.
The main innovations are:
The creation of the post of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR);
The establishment of the European External Action Service (EEAS);
The ability for the European Council to make determinations of “strategic interests and objectives” for all EU external action;
The creation of the post of the President of the European Council who exercises external representative responsibilities.
(12 ) The Lisbon Treaty
Created on Monday, 27 February 2017 09:52 | Last Updated on Monday, 27 February 2017 09:52 |
The Treaty of Lisbon - How much 'Constitution' is left? An Overview of the Main Changes
The Treaty of Lisbon Europe’s Next Step?
THE EU CHARTER AND ITS APPLICATION AND INTERPRETATION
The EU’s New Human Rights Dimension
Second Permissible Objective: Need to Protect the Rights and Freedoms of Others
Since there are many elements which could constitute ‘general interests’ it would appear that the second objective (rights and freedoms of others) would not become the biggest issue. But the first judgment in this respect shows that it is in particular in personal relationships that this objective might become relevant.77
(11) The Lisbon Treaty
Created on Friday, 03 February 2017 07:32 | Last Updated on Friday, 03 February 2017 07:33 |
EP after the Lisbon treaty: Bigger role in shaping Europe
THE EU CHARTER AND ITS APPLICATION AND INTERPRETATION
The EU’s New Human Rights Dimension
The Lisbon Treaty creates a new dimension of human rights protection within which the CFREU plays the most important role but within which it also has to be placed. The most important introductory provisions set out the framework of the Union as a whole.
In this context, it should be recalled, from the outset, that the Preamble of the TEU confirms the attachment to the principles of liberty, democracy and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms (fourth recital), and specifically the fundamental social rights (fifth recital).30 Even more importantly, the ‘respect for human rights’ is a value on which the Union is based (Article 2 TEU) and one of the Union’s aims is to promote its values (Article 3(1) TEU). Within this framework, Article 6 TEU represents the core of human rights protection and its multilevel system. Paragraph 1 represents the most innovative dimension: the CFREU, which is made legally binding by having ‘the same legal value as the Treaties’. Paragraph 2 contains the obligation to accede to the ECHR31 and, finally as an own source of EU law (at least understood as a source of legal guidance)32-paragraph 3 recalls the principles already contained in ex-Article 6(2) EU according to which fundamental rights as guaranteed by the ECHR and as they result from the constitutional traditions common to the Member States shall constitute general principles of Union law.33
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