The Eurozone and the European Union have recently been confronted with a number of existential threats. The sovereign debt crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have forced European decisionmakers to pass important reforms which have radically transformed the nature and scope of the Union's powers in...

The file note consists of three parts of which the second part is the most extensive. The first part provides an overview of the policy field at EU level. It focuses on the current legal framework, its shortcomings and critical assessment of the 'new EU framework'. In the second part, the File...