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The Fiscal Compact: Europe's Not Always Able to Speak German: On the Dutch Implementing Act and the Hazardous Interpretation of the Implementation Duty in Article 3(2) Fiscal Compact*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2013

Abstract

Fiscal Compact: duty to implement balanced budget rule, automatic correction mechanism and independent budget supervisor in national law – The Netherlands: Act on sustainable government finances – Act does not bind the (budget) legislature – Conformity with the implementation duty in Article 3(2) Fiscal Compact? – The first reading of Article 3(2) – The second reading of Article 3(2) – The genesis of Article 3(2) – Recourse to (Dutch and French) monism?

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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press and the Authors 2013 

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Footnotes

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The title refers to a speech of CDU parliamentary leader Volker Kauder at a party meeting in November 2011: ‘Jetzt auf einmal wird in Europa Deutsch gesprochen, nicht in der Sprache, aber in der Akzeptanz der Instrumente (…) Ausgangspunkt der Krise sind nicht die Spekulanten, sondern dass wir uns nicht an Haushaltdisziplin gehalten haben in Europa’, <www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUeuCIe9vkQ>; the quoted phrases are pronounced between 4:52 and 6:01 minutes. Thanks to LB for providing this reference.

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* The title refers to a speech of CDU parliamentary leader Volker Kauder at a party meeting in November 2011: ‘Jetzt auf einmal wird in Europa Deutsch gesprochen, nicht in der Sprache, aber in der Akzeptanz der Instrumente (…) Ausgangspunkt der Krise sind nicht die Spekulanten, sondern dass wir uns nicht an Haushaltdisziplin gehalten haben in Europa’, <www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUeuCIe9vkQ>; the quoted phrases are pronounced between 4:52 and 6:01 minutes. Thanks to LB for providing this reference.