EU Fiscal Federalism Past, Present, Future

 

EU Fiscal Federalism

Past, Present, Future

Edited by Alicia Hinarejos and Robert Schütze

• The first comprehensive legal volume of its kind on the topic of fiscal federalism within the European Union (EU)
• Brings together a distinguished team of experts to analyse key aspects of the single market from free movement, banking union, state aid, and tax harmonisation, to the EU budget and Economic and Monetary Union
• Provides an overview of the EU's fiscal powers and influence across all relevant areas
• Informed by the latest developments in the debate about a greater fiscal capacity for the EU

TABLE OF CONTENT:

Introduction, Alicia Hinarejos and Robert Schütze
Part I. The Internal Market of the Union
1. Fiscal Barriers in the Internal Market, Robert Schütze
2. Tax Powers and the EU State Aid Regime, Francesco de Cecco
3. The Harmonisation of Indirect Taxes, Edoardo Traversa and Elena Masseglia
4. The Harmonisation of Direct Taxes, Christiana Panayi
5. The Banking Union: From the Past to the Future, Kern Alexander
Part II. The Fiscal Policy of the Union
6. EU Fiscal Coordination: Past and Present, Antonio Estella
7. Never Waste a Good Crisis: On the Emergent EU Fiscal Capacity, Fabian Amtenbrink and Menelaos Markakis
8. EU Borrowing and Safe Assets, Michael Waibel and Sebastian Grund
9. EU Budget and Spending Powers, Cristina Fasone
10. Fiscal Union by Other Means? The ECB and the Courts, Alicia Hinarejos
Epilogue: Democratizing Fiscal Europe, Thomas Piketty and Antoine Vauchez