Europe's Crisis-Law and the Welfare State

Abstract

This article explores the constitutional dimension of the new European crisis-management-law. The author's critical stance is that the new architecture of the European economic governance deepens the well-known asymmetries between supranational market forces and national Welfare State arrangements. A convergent process of de-politicisation and de-legalisation takes place at EU level, with dramatic implications for the viability of the so-called European social model.