This paper describes the institutional flaws that led to the euro crisis, assesses the institutional reforms that were put in place during and in the aftermath of the crisis, and evaluates the remaining fragilities of the architecture of the European monetary union. In mid-2017, growth in the...

In April 2023, the European Commission issued a directive proposal on EU economic governance reform. The Council cut some tasks of Independent Fiscal Institutions (IFIs) that were in the Commission directive proposal; whether this cutting is justified is an open question. Early this year, the...

This study examines major reform proposals of EU fiscal rules from an economic and legal perspective. We disassemble the reform proposals in their components and analyse them in their specific proposed form in comparison, thereby shedding light on what is legally possible, economically sensible,...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Designing and Building a European Economy: from the 1930s to 1991 -- Chapter 3. Fiscal Constraints and Supranational Money: From Maastricht (1992) to Lisbon (2007) -- Chapter 4. Steering the Euro across the Crises (2008-2019) -- Chapter 5. Reforming the...