The European architecture for the protection of fundamental rights combines the legal regimes of the state, the European Union, and the European Convention on Human Rights. The purpose of this book is to analyse the implications of this multilevel architecture and to examine the dynamics that spring from the interaction between different human rights standards in Europe. The book adopts a comparative approach by comparing the European system with the federal system of the United States. It identifies two recurrent challenges in the interplay between different state and transnational human...
The European architecture for the protection of fundamental rights combines the legal regimes of the state, the European Union, and the European Conve...
The EU's recently enacted Treaty on the Stability, Coordination, and Governance of the Economic and Monetary Union (generally referred to as the Fiscal Compact) has introduced a -golden rule,- which is a detailed obligation that government budgets be balanced. Moreover, it requires the 25 Members of the EU, which signed the Treaty in March 2012, to incorporate this -golden rule- within their national constitutions. This requirement represents a major and unprecedented development, raising formidable challenges to the nature and legitimacy of national constitutions, as well as to the future of...
The EU's recently enacted Treaty on the Stability, Coordination, and Governance of the Economic and Monetary Union (generally referred to as the Fisca...
The Euro-Crisis and the legal and institutional responses to it have had important constitutional implications on the architecture of the European Union (EU). Going beyond the existing literature, Federico Fabbrini's book takes a broad look and examines how the crisis and its aftermath have changed relations of power in the EU, disaggregating three different dimensions: (1) the vertical relations of power between the member states and the EU institutions, (2) the relations of power between the political branches and the courts, and (3) the horizontal relations of power between the EU member...
The Euro-Crisis and the legal and institutional responses to it have had important constitutional implications on the architecture of the European Uni...
The recently enacted Treaty on the Stability, Coordination and Governance of the Economic and Monetary Union (generally referred to as the Fiscal Compact) has introduced a 'golden rule', which is a detailed obligation that government budgets be balanced. Moreover, it required the 25 members of the EU which signed the Treaty in March 2012, to incorporate this 'golden rule' within their national Constitutions. This requirement represents a major and unprecedented development, raising formidable challenges to the nature and legitimacy of national Constitutions as well as to the future of the...
The recently enacted Treaty on the Stability, Coordination and Governance of the Economic and Monetary Union (generally referred to as the Fiscal Comp...
Recent revelations, by Edward Snowden and others, of the vast network of government spying enabled by modern technology have raised major concerns, both in the European Union and the United States, on how to protect privacy in the face of increasing governmental surveillance. This book brings together some of the leading experts in the fields of constitutional law, criminal law, and human rights from the US and the EU to examine the protection of privacy in the digital era, as well as the challenges that counter-terrorism cooperation between governments pose to human rights. It examines the...
Recent revelations, by Edward Snowden and others, of the vast network of government spying enabled by modern technology have raised major concerns, bo...
