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The Eurozone Crisis and the Limits of Economic Integration
March 29, 2012 at 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
| Location: | 2017 Dunton Tower |
| Cost: | Free |
2012 Canada-EU Law Lecture
Registration Required (see below)
The Eurozone crisis continues to highlight the imbalance underlying the Economic and Monetary Union. While bailouts may be a temporary solution, longer-term solutions will need to address the asymmetry between a centralized monetary union and decentralized, national economic policies.
This lecture will map out the steps taken so far to coordinate national economic policies, as well as the problems that this process will face in the future. Any strengthening of the powers of the EU in this area will need to be assessed against the principle of conferral and against democratic requirements, both as a matter of compliance with EU law and as a matter of national constitutional law—an issue that was highlighted by the German Constitutional Court in its decision on the Lisbon Treaty. Ultimately, the question is whether there are limits to integration, and to what extent a common economic policy may be beyond those limits.
Dr Alicia Hinarejos is a University Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Downing College. Before arriving in Cambridge, she was an Assistant Professor and Boulton Fellow at McGill University (2009-2011). She had previously been a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and a William Golding Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. Dr. Hinarejos’ main areas of research are EU law and comparative public law. She holds a DPhil from Oxford, where she also received an MPhil and a MJur in European and Comparative Law.
Light refreshments will be served
The event is supported, in part, by a grant from the European Commission, for more information contact ces@carleton.ca or 613 520-2600, ext. 1087