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Back to Government?: The Pluralistic Deficit in the Decisionmaking Process and Before the Courts
Back to Government?: The Pluralistic Deficit in the Decisionmaking Processes and Before the Courts, Symposium. University of Trento, Italy, June 11-12, 2004
Back to Government?: The Pluralistic Deficit in the Decisionmaking Process and Before the Courts
Back to Government?: The Pluralistic Deficit in the Decisionmaking Processes and Before the Courts, Symposium. University of Trento, Italy, June 11-12, 2004
Economic and social conflicts, integration and constitutionalism in contemporary Europe. LEQS Discussion Paper No. 13/2009 November 2009
Concern for economic and social conflicts remains one of the most defining features
of contemporary political and constitutional systems. This is particularly evident in
Western democracies where political alignments are traditionally conceived along
the left-right divide, a conflict line whose current configuration is reminiscent of the
ideological cleavages associated with the 19th and 20th Century class struggles. This
type of conflict (hereafter, first type conflicts), alongside playing a crucial role in the
shaping of national political identities, has prominently featured in constitutional
history as one of the main variables contributing to the rise of constitutional
democracy
The first EU measures in response to the economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis
The article examines the first EU response to the economic consequences
of the CoViD-19 crisis, consisting in a mix of measures including the loosening of
state-aids and budgetary constraints on national economic policies, temporary purchases
of national public debt by the European Central Bank, a set of loans assisted
by conditionality and transfers of limited amount based on the EU budget. On the basis
of this analysis, the article suggests that the CoViD-19 crisis does not seem to have
prompted a reconsideration of the structure of the EU economic governance. In particular,
the Union appears still structurally unable to develop meaningful forms of
transnational solidarit
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