The creation of Monetary Union marked a major step in the evolution of the European Union. Is the EU now taking the next step of deeper integration towards a fully-fledged economic government? The book seeks to answer this question by studying the evolution, execution and performance of new modes of economic policy co-ordination as potential stepping-stones towards more institutionalized forms of economic governance.

Autorentext
INES HARTWIG Administrator in the European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities KERSTIN JACOBSSON Associate Professor of Sociology, Södertörn University College and Research Fellow at Score (Stockholm Center for Organizational Research) at Stockholm University and Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden TOBIAS KUNSTEIN Student of Economics and Political Science, University of Cologne, Germany JACQUES LE CACHEUX Professor of Economics, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France FLORENCE TOUYA currently completing her PhD in Economics at the University of Pau, France GABY UMBACH Research Associate at the Jean-Monnet Chair for Political Science, University of Cologne, Germany ÅSA VIFELL Researcher in Political Science, Stockholm University and Score, Sweden

Inhalt
An Economic Government for Europe in the Making?; C.O.Meyer , I.Linsenmann & W.Wessels Evolution Towards a European Economic Government? C.O.Meyer , I.Linsenmann & W.Wessels To Co-ordinate or Not to Co-ordinate; J.Le Cacheux New Governance Structures in Employment Policy-making; K.Jacobsson & Å.Vifell The Dismal Record of the Stability Pact; J.Le Cacheux & F.Touya Europeanization of National Economic Governance Through Policy Coordination?; C.O.Meyer & G.Umbach European Employment Strategy and Structural Funds; I.Hartwig Towards a Horizontal Fusion of Governing Structures?; I.Linsenmann Deliberative Transnationalism?; K.Jacobsson & Å.Vifell Towards a 'Grand Débat Européen' on Economic Governance?; C.O.Meyer & T.Kunstein The Limitations of European Economic Governance; C.O.Meyer , I.Linsenmann & W.Wessels