Legal Framework of the Single European Currency

Description

This collection features essays by leading experts in European public law on the legal framework of the European single currency. After introductory essays on the legal and economic foundations and political context of the euro, the book concentrates on the articulation of monetary union with other aspects of the legal and political order of the EU. The constitutional status of the institutions of monetary union is assessed, as is the relationship between monetary union and the broader administrative structure and social objectives of the EU. A final essay considers the implications of the euro for the cohesiveness of the European legal order in the early years of the next century. The contributors include Alistair Darling, John Usher, Andrew Scott, Ian Harden, Paul Craig and Joanne Scott.

Paul Beaumont is Professor of European Union and Private International Law at the University of Aberdeen. Neil Walker is Professor of European Law at the EUI Florence.

...does a valuable service to British public debatestimulating dialoguethe book certainly situates one in the legal context and issues of the EMU in preparation for that debate.Legal Framework of the Single European Currency becomes an invaluable resource in the European public debate on the single currency. -- Melih Karakullukcu * Columbia Journal of European Law * Both descriptive and analytical, this book is concerned with the fine detail of the law but it also places that law in historical, political and economic context. * European Sources Online *