Bertelsmann Stiftung, Jacques Delors Centre (ed.)

Lucas Guttenberg

Time to come home

If the ESM is to stay relevant, it should be reinvented inside the EU

Format Type
PDF
Date of publication
12/11/2020
Edition
1. edition
Volume/Format
5 pages, PDF

Price

Free of charge

Description

When restarting work on reforming the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the Eurogroup should heed the lessons of the pandemic: The ESM has become politically unviable while there is apparently a lot more flexibility within the EU treaties than previously thought. Therefore, this policy brief argues that the old reform plans should be put to one side and the ESM should be reinvented inside the EU legal order if it is to remain relevant. Such a reinvention would create a coherent crisis management framework that would be politically sustainable in the long run.

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