Monetary Policy and the Economy Q1/14
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- März 2014.
Austria: Economic Activity Picks Up at the Turn of the Year (PDF, 2 MB) Ragacs. Ragacs – Monetary Policy and the Economy Q1/14 en 31.03.2014, 00:00:00
The EU’s Reformed Institutional Framework and the Way Forward
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Kment, Lindner.
Kment & Lindner – Monetary Policy and the Economy Q1/14
This article focuses on measures taken in 2012 and 2013 to reform the EU’s institutional
framework. These measures, which were largely based on provisions included in the Treaty of
Lisbon, have increased the role of the European Parliament and of the national parliaments.
Stronger parliamentary involvement and interinstitutional agreements on democratic accountability
seem to counter the theory of a lack of democratic legitimacy; legitimacy would appear
to be jeopardized more severely by an emerging “social deficit.” At the same time, governance
has become more complex, as the Community method of decision making was mixed with
intergovernmental decision making in crisis management and prevention measures, and as
variable membership patterns have evolved. By establishing the European Stability Mechanism
(ESM) for euro area countries and a facility for providing balance of payments assistance
to non-euro area countries, the EU has set up permanent financial crisis management
mechanisms. Fiscal governance reforms replicate the precrisis structure, and – as before –
success depends on the commitment of Member States to implement reform measures. With
more detailed reporting requirements and more ambitious timelines in the European Semester,
economic governance has become more extensive. Yet European and Monetary Union (EMU)
remains incomplete: By establishing a banking union, the EU Member States have transferred
national sovereignty to the supranational level, but the reforms stop short of a fiscal union, for
which the Treaty of Lisbon would need to be changed.
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EU economic governance reform, EMU, sixpack, twopack, fiscal compact, TSCG, banking union, SSM, SRM, SRF, European Stability Mechanism (ESM), outright monetary transactions (OMT), intergovernmental agreements
F15, F55, K0, N24, N44, O52
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