Full Description
How has the EU's economic crisis affected the development of economic law in the Union? This book contributes to the debate by examining EU economic law from a contextual and policy-oriented perspective.The expert authors explore areas such as the EMU and the internal market, and emphasize the important fields of public procurement, taxation, and intellectual property rights. The investigation proceeds along themes such as harmonization, institutional interplay, non-economic values, and international actions. The authors conclude that, during the crisis, the attention of the Barroso Commission focused quite narrowly on the most urgent problems, failing to consider longer-term issues to spark off bold policy endeavours, and break inter-institutional blockages.
This book is targeted at scholars, policy-makers and other practitioners, as well as students, interested in EU economic law, integration, and the economic crisis.
Contributors: J. Faull, C. Geiger, F. Hoffmeister, M.S. Jansson, H. Kalimo, T. Lahti, I. Lejeune, M. Meulenbelt, K. Olkkonen, J. Salminen, A. Strub, J. Strupczewski, J. Vaario
Contents
Contents:
Foreword
Paul Craig
1. Assessing Economic Law under Crisis: A Framework of Analysis
H. Kalimo and M.S. Jansson
PART I SETTING THE SCENE: THE EMU AND THE INTERNAL MARKET
2. How the Sovereign Debt Crisis Changed the Euro Zone
J. Strupczewski
3. A Short History of the Deepening EMU
T. Lahti
4. Some Thoughts on the Internal Market in a Time of Crisis
J. Faull
5. The EMU and the Internal Market During the Economic Crisis: Building Bridges over Troubled Waters?
J. Salminen
PART II PUBLIC PROCUREMENT, TAXATION AND IPRs
6. Protectionism on the Rise? Modernization of EU Public Procurement Rules During the Economic Crisis
M. Meulenbelt
7. The EU Public Procurement Regime on Third-country Bidders: Setting the Cursor Between Openness and Reciprocity
F. Hoffmeister
8. EU Tax Policy during the Economic and Financial Crisis
A. Strub
9. Can a Best-practice VAT Generate More Revenues Whilst Fighting the VAT-GAP by 2020?
I. Lejeune
10. Moving out of the Economic Crisis: What Role and Shape for Intellectual Property Rights in the European Union?
C. Geiger
11. EU Intellectual Property Rights Law: Driving Innovation or Stifling the Digital Single Market ?
H. Kalimo, K. Olkkonen and J. Vaario
PART III CONCLUSIONS
12. A Wasted Crisis?
H. Kalimo and M.S. Jansson
Index
