nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170313-145903 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170313s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170313-145903 doi eng 342 23 Platon, Sébastien Author aut Democratizing the Euro Area without the European Parliament: Benoît Hamon’s “T-Dem” Platon, Sébastien Verfassungsblog 2017-03-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On the 10th March, the official candidate of the Socialist Party for the French presidential elections, Benoît Hamon, outlined his programme for the European Union. This programme, whilst being against austerity and in favour of more flexibility as regards EU requirements in terms of public budgets and public debts, comes with a treaty proposal, the draft treaty on the democratization of the governance of the euro area (dubbed « T-Dem »). This treaty, which was prepared by the candidate together with the superstar economist Thomas Piketty (who has joined his team) is supposed to bring more democracy to the governance of the Euro area. However noble (and necessary) this ambitious idea might seem, the way this draft treaty has been engineered raises not only political but also legal questions. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Benoît Hamon Euro European Parliament eurozone Thomas Piketty Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/democratizing-the-euro-area-without-the-european-parliament-benoit-hamons-t-dem/ raw object