The European Council as a Crisis Manager
ISBN:
978-3-8487-8437-0
Verlag:
Nomos
Land des Verlags:
Deutschland
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.06.2022
Reihe:
Studies on the European Union
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
160
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Faced with the deepest economic crisis in its history, the European Union established a seminal COVID-19 recovery package relying on common debt. This book analyses the European Council’s key role as a crisis manager and transformative force of the EU system. Combining thick descriptions of the history-making events of 2020-21 with EU theorising, we explain and critically assess the innovative set-up of the recovery package. Inside the European Council, we find a remarkable impetus for political consensus among national leaders. However, their detailed and ambiguous decisions at times came at the cost of political delay, legal uncertainty, and thin public scrutiny.
