Following the adoption of Eurocrisis Law, the European Parliament (EP) has been strongly empowered in the Economic and Monetary Union. It may intervene mostly in three ways: by the means of control mechanisms around Euro summits, during Economic Dialogues and in the framework of the European...

During the economic crisis, the EU adopted five regulations and one directive (the so-called legislative Six-Pack) in little more than one year. Retrospectively, criticism was expressed, partly stemming from the European Parliament itself, questioning the legitimacy of the new economic...