The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) was created to serve as one of the key measures for overcoming the European debt crisis. Lena Ketterer places it in the context of the European Union's bailout policy and analyzes the necessary change to the European Union treaties and the ESM treaty with regard to the parliamentary approval requirement of the "Europe article" in the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (Art. 23 Para. 1 GG).

The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is one of the key measures for overcoming the so-called Eurozone crisis and raises fundamental issues for European and constitutional law. Lena Ketterer places the development of the mechanism in the context of the European Union's bailout policy of the years 2010 to 2014 and analyzes the necessary change to the European treaties as well as the international ESM treaty with regard to the legal reservations of the "Europe article" written into the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (Art. 23 Para. 1 GG). Did the change to the European Union treaties and the international ESM treaty require a constitution-changing approval act with a two-thirds majority in both houses of the German parliament? In her discussion of this issue, Ketterer redefines the scope of the Europe article.

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Geboren 1981; Studium der Rechtswissenschaft in Freiburg; Referendariat im OLG-Bezirk Karlsruhe; Akademische Mitarbeiterin an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Öffentliches Recht; Rechtsassessorin beim Rechtsamt der Stadt Freiburg; 2014 Richterin, Verwaltungsgericht Freiburg.