James D Savage

Making the Emu

The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and the Enforcement of Maastricht

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Maastricht Treaty and the Stability Growth Pact demand that EU member states comply with their famous deficit and debt requirements of 3 and 60 per cent of GDP. Yet, how can the EU's leaders be certain that these targets are met? Is a 3 per cent deficit in Belgium equivalent to one in Italy or France? Making the EMU explores how the Treaty's budgetary surveillance procedure monitors member state budgetary policies, harmonizes their budgetary data, and effectively determines which member states qualified for member status and are subject to the Pact's sanctions. This book provides the first examination of how the EU entrusted the credibility of these critical budgetary figures to a relatively minor European Commission agency, and what effect the surveillance procedure has on the making of the EMU and the enforcement of Maastricht.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780199278404
• ISBN-10: 0199278407
• Artikelnr.: 21403648

Autorenporträt

Professor of Politics and Assistant Vice President for Research and Federal Relations, University of Virginia

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Enforcing Maastricht: The Significance of Treaty Surveillance
* 2: Treaty Delegation and the Institutional Structure of Surveillance
* 3: Designing a Compliance Information System: ESA and the Techniques
of Surveillance
* 4: European Statistical Case Law for Stage II of Convergence 1994-97
* 5: European Statistical Case Law for Stage III Monetary Union
1998-2004
* 6: Credibility, Institutionalization, and Europeanization
* Appendix: Other Eurostat Sage II Decisions 1995-97