How has the EU's economic crisis affected the development of economic law in the Union during the Barroso II Commission? 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 internal market, and emphasise 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 has focused too narrowly on the most urgent problems, failing to consider longer-term issues to spark off bold policy endeavours, and break inter-institutional blockades.This book will be of use to scholars interested in EU economic law, integration, and the economic crisis. Policy-makers, other practitioners and advanced students can also benefit from points raised in this timely monograph.
Contents:ForewordPaul Craig1. Assessing Economic Law under Crisis: A Framework of AnalysisH. Kalimo and M.S. JanssonPART I SETTING THE SCENE: THE EMU AND THE INTERNAL MARKET2. How the Sovereign Debt Crisis Changed the Euro ZoneJ. Strupczewski3. A Short History of the Deepening EMU T. Lahti4. Some Thoughts on the Internal Market in a Time of CrisisJ. Faull5. The EMU and the Internal Market During the Economic Crisis: Building Bridges over Troubled Waters?J. SalminenPART II PUBLIC PROCUREMENT, TAXATION AND IPRs6. Protectionism on the Rise? Modernization of EU Public Procurement Rules During the Economic Crisis M. Meulenbelt7. The EU Public Procurement Regime on Third-country Bidders: Setting the Cursor Between Openness and ReciprocityF. Hoffmeister8. EU Tax Policy during the Economic and Financial CrisisA. Strub9. 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. Geiger11. EU Intellectual Property Rights Law: Driving Innovation or Stifling the Digital Single Market ? H. Kalimo, K. Olkkonen and J. VaarioPART III CONCLUSIONS12. A Wasted Crisis? H. Kalimo and M.S. JanssonIndex
