Economic Government of the EU - A Balance Sheet of New Modes of Policy Coordination

The creation of Monetary Union marked a major step in the evolution of the European Union. Is the EU now taking the next step of deeper integration towards a fully-fledged economic government? The book seeks to answer this question by studying the evolution, execution and performance of new modes of economic policy coordination as potential stepping-stones towards more supranational forms of economic governance. It provides the first comprehensive assessment of how the key instruments - the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines, Stability and Growth Pact, and the European Employment Strategy - have worked in practice at both European and national levels.

An Economic Government for Europe in the Making?; C.O.Meyer, I.Linsenmann & W.Wessels Evolution Towards a European Economic Government? C.O.Meyer, I.Linsenmann & W.Wessels To Co-ordinate or Not to Co-ordinate; J.Le Cacheux New Governance Structures in Employment Policy-making; K.Jacobsson & Å.Vifell The Dismal Record of the Stability Pact; J.Le Cacheux & F.Touya Europeanization of National Economic Governance Through Policy Coordination?; C.O.Meyer & G.Umbach European Employment Strategy and Structural Funds; I.Hartwig Towards a Horizontal Fusion of Governing Structures?; I.Linsenmann Deliberative Transnationalism?; K.Jacobsson & Å.Vifell Towards a 'Grand Débat Européen' on Economic Governance?; C.O.Meyer & T.Kunstein The Limitations of European Economic Governance; C.O.Meyer, I.Linsenmann & W.Wessels