The European sovereign debt crisis revealed functional deficits in the common economic and financial constitution. To preserve the euro area as a whole, the member states chose the path of special contractual cooperations. Based on an analysis of the Fiscal Stability Treaty, EFSF and ESM as reference cooperations, Hannes Rathke examines the premises and potential of this form of action as an alternative instrument for European integration.
The European sovereign debt crisis revealed functional deficits in the common economic and financial constitution. To preserve the euro area as a whole, the member states chose the path of special contractual cooperations. Based on an analysis of the Fiscal Stability Treaty, EFSF and ESM as reference cooperations, Hannes Rathke examines the premises and potential of this form of action as an alternative instrument for European integration.
Hannes Rathke
Geboren 1979; Studium der Rechtswissenschaften in Münster und Budapest (LL.M.); wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht und Steuerrecht der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg; 2018 Promotion (Heidelberg); seit 2012 Referent der Verwaltung des Deutschen Bundestages.
Europäischer Stabilitätsmechanismus Fiskalvertrag EFSF Wirtschaftsunion Währungsunion