Democratizing the Euro Area without the European Parliament: Benoît Hamon’s “T-Dem” Platon, Sébastien Author aut Text xx# 2017 Verfassungsblog 2017-03-13 eng
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 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. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Platon, Sébastien funded by the government Benoît Hamon Euro European Parliament eurozone Thomas Piketty 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/democratizing-the-euro-area-without-the-european-parliament-benoit-hamons-t-dem/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20170313-145903 170313 10.17176/20170313-145903 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)