"Preface: introducing the European Economic Constitution and its transformations" [2019] ELECD 2461; in Hofmann, C.H. Herwig; Pantazatou, Katerina; Zaccaroni, Giovanni (eds), "The Metamorphosis of the European Economic Constitution" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) ix

Book Title: The Metamorphosis of the European Economic Constitution

Editor(s): Hofmann, C.H. Herwig; Pantazatou, Katerina; Zaccaroni, Giovanni

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Preface: introducing the European Economic Constitution and its transformations

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

Preface: introducing the `European
Economic Constitution' and its
transformations
The EU's constitutional framework has continued to transform itself over the
past decades especially since the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon and
the subsequent economic and financial as well as regulatory challenges that
followed it. In the context of the ongoing transformations of the constitutional
framework governing economic matters, this book explores how the original
conception of what we refer to as a `European Economic Constitution' has
developed and should further develop.

THE BOOK'S CONCEPT

The concept of this book on the European Economic Constitution arises
from a seeming gap in academic writing in this area. Although writing on the
European Economic Constitution, both old and new, has a certain tradition,
there remains in our view a strong need to analyse the notions of the Economic
Constitution from a more holistic constitutional perspective. This more
encompassing approach, we argue, is one informed strongly by the lesions of
the various crises of the last decade. Economic and social objectives, funda-
mental rights, banking union and fiscal policies are only few of the examples
that, in our opinion, should form part of a book dedicated to the European
Economic Constitution.
The book develops around the idea of the transformation of the European
Economic Constitution since the beginning of the economic crisis. The
concept of a transformation itself is widely, but not unanimously, accepted.1
Therefore, this book traces and evaluates conceptual, regulatory, institutional
and legitimacy-related changes and ...