The Crisis behind the Eurocrisis

Eva Nanopoulos is a Lecturer in Law and Academic Coordinator for the B.A./LL.B. in Law and Politics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research and teaching interests are in EU law, international law, human rights, constitutional law and critical legal theory. She is co-director of the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (QMUL) and currently completing a monograph on the Juridification of Sanctions and the Politics of EU Law (forthcoming). Fotis Vergis is Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester School of Law, where he teaches EU Law and Labour Law. His research interests include EU Law and constitutional theory, labour law theory and collective labour law. During his Ph.D. studies at the University of Cambridge he was awarded a Modern Law Review Scholarship for 2013–14 and 2014–15. He is a member of the Labour Law Research Network (LLRN), the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) and the Industrial Law Society (ILS). He sits on the Editorial Board of the Greek Labour Law Review and the Scientific Committee of the 'Labour Paradigm' Network of Progressive Labour Law Scholars. He is also a member of the Thessaloniki Bar, now as a non-practising barrister.

Introduction: the elephant in the room: a tale of crisis Eva Nanopoulos and Fotis Vergis; 1. There is no (legal) alternative: codifying economic ideology into law Ben Farrand and Marco Rizzi; Part I. The Crisis as a Crisis of the EU's Identity: 2. The roots of the European crisis: a historical perspective Charalambos Kouroundis; 3. The end of self-fulfilling Europe Hent Kalmo; 4. The authoritarian neoliberalism of the EU: legal form and international politico-economic sources Magnus Ryner; Part II. The Crisis as a Crisis of the EU's Political and Democratic Legitimacy: 5. Authoritarian liberalism: the conjuncture behind the crisis Michael Wilkinson; 6. The inherently undemocratic EU democracy: moving beyond the 'democratic deficit' debate Eva Nanopoulos and Fotis Vergis; 7. Europe and constituent powers: ruptures with the neoliberal consensus? Maria Tzanakopoulou; 8. 'Who's afraid of the European demos?': the uneasy relationship between the European Union and referendums Elia Alexiou; 9. Can public and voluntary acts of consent confer legitimacy on the EU? Ozlem Ulgen; Part III. The Crisis as a Crisis of the EU's Economic Model: 10. The fiscal compact: a paradoxical fiscal governance machine Vanessa Bilancetti; 11. The rise of unaccountable governance in the Eurozone Gunnar Beck; 12. Unification from above, its contradictions and the conjuncture initiated by the Eurozone crisis Christakis Georgiou; Part IV. The Crisis as a Crisis of the EU's Social Character: 13. A tale of two documents: the eclipse of the social democratic constitution Alan Bogg and K. D. Ewing; 14. How to analyse a supranational regime that nationalises social conflict? The European crisis, labour politics and methodological nationalism Roland Erne; 15. Which refugee crisis? On the proxy of the systemic Euro-crisis and its spatialities Dimitris Dalakoglou; Part V. Joining the Dots and the Way Forward: 16. The European crisis of economic liberalism: can the law help? Michelle Everson; 17. With time to prepare: planning an exit from the EMU Costas Lapavitsas; 18. Brexit and the imperial constitution of Europe Alex Callinicos; Conclusion Eva Nanopoulos and Fotis Vergis.