1st Edition

Constitutional Law and the EU Balanced Budget Principle

By Simina Tănăsescu, Eric Oliva Copyright 2022
276 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Exploring the balanced budget rule as an economic standard and as a legal principle, this book explains the context and content of the balanced budget rule and presents a critical appraisal of its impact on legal systems, political institutions and social values, and particularly an evaluation of its constitutionalization in the European and national legal systems. Examining a range of... Read more

Introduction - Balanced budget rule and/in the Law

Eric Oliva, Elena-Simina Tanasescu

 

Part I: Balanced Budget as Normative and Economic Standard

Chapter 1: Balanced budget as a substantive legal rule

    • Gilbert Orsoni

Chapter 2: On the economic concept of a balanced budget

    • Thomas Stauffer

Part II: Balanced Budget as Constitutional Rule

Chapter 3: The German Debt Brake

    • Ralph Schenke

Chapter 4: The Constitutional stakes of the "golden rule"

    • Marc Verdussen

Part III: Balanced Budget and Separation of Powers

Chapter 5: Balanced budget rule and representative democracy

    • Giulia Aravatinou Leonidi

Chapter 6: The Financial Local Autonomy – A Tale of Balanced Budgets and Vertical Separation of Financial Power

    • Simona Gherghina

Chapter 7: Balanced budget rule and the transversality of agencies

    • Bogdan Iancu

Part IV: Balanced Budget, Governance and Fundamental Rights

Chapter 8: Balanced budget rule and social rights

    • George Katrougalos, Daphne Akoumaniaki

Chapter 9: The organizational foundations the IMF’s doctrinal turn on fiscal policy after the Great Recession

    • Cornel Ban

Final remarks - Balanced Budgets: the Vanity of a Principle

Michel Bouvier

Biography

Elena-Simina Tănăsescu is Professor of Law at the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Eric Oliva is Professor of Public Finance at Aix-Marseille Université, France.