The financial crisis of 2007-2009 led to a renewed increase in government deficits and debts in many EU countries, causing a full-fledged fiscal crisis in Greece and severe fiscal pressures in other euro-area countries. This has prompted a series of proposals for improving the fiscal framework...

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...