The debate on the economic orientation of the European Union can be traced back to the negotiations of the Treaty of Rome. Increasingly, scholars and recent case law start from the assumption that market goals and social-policy goals are on a par. A slight tendency in favour of the market has...

The critique against capitalism on the grounds that its economic interests are often irreconcilable with its social aspirations has gained merit in various circles. Given this background, the debate over the economic orientation of a community and the role of non-market goals such as...

Since years the European Union struggles with its structural and constitutional self-determination in search of a sustainable balance between con-federal and federal options, between inter-governmentalism and supranationalism. This Article understands the Treaty of Lisbon as one step in a long...

Political economy concerns historical, legal and heterodox economics analysis of complex systems. This article attempts to analyze the current state of the European Union from historical, legal and interdisciplinary economics perspectives. Historically, the ancient Athenian democracy, the Holy...

The German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) has found that there are no constitutional objections against the Lisbon Treaty. At the same time, the FCC imposed limitations to future integration by identifying a number of state functions that are non-amenable to integration and which have to be...

Chapter 1: Public Support for the Euro and Trust in the ECB: The first two decades of the common currency -- Chapter 2: Revisiting Public Support for the Euro, 1999-2017: Accounting for the crisis and the recovery -- Chapter 3: Public Support for the Euro -- Chapter 4: Crisis and Public Support...