European Monetary Union and the Courts

Abstract

European Monetary Union (EMU) is one of the cornerstones of the post-Maastricht European project. Inasmuch as the Maastricht Treaty adopted a binding horizon for the creation of a unitary currency comprising the vast majority of the Member States, the Treaty provided for the blueprint, as of 1992, to initiate, in the area of monetary policy, the still lasting process of the European project’s political integration. As a result, the first pillars of a European economic policy followed, creating an edifice under the name of EMU that is still in the making, but has nevertheless developed, at this point, into a crucial pillar of the European Union’s (EU) constitutional charter.

Small states and the EU: Does the EU promote secession within EU Member States?

“…Yet, Catalan nationalists have also received with joy the refusal of several European arrest warrants against former Catalan political leaders (in the context of European judicial cooperation) or the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Junqueras case (C-502/19 ECLI:EU:C:2019:1115), whereby the Court decided the immunity of the elected Members of the European Parliament. Although the former Catalan Vice-President Oriol Junqueras has not been able to enjoy the benefits of the Court decision, it "has not been entirely pointless for other pro-independence politicians" like former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and former Catalan Conseller Toni Comín, who were admitted as MEPs following the judgment (Sarmiento, 2020).…”