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Austerity, Grexit and the Battle for the Euro


Michael A. Wilkinson


London School of Economics - Law Department

November 11, 2015

LSE Law - Policy Briefing Paper No. 10

Abstract:     
Does the European Central Bank (‘ECB’) have the mandate to do ‘whatever it takes’ to save the Euro? While the German Constitutional Court answered the question with a clear ‘no’, the European Court of Justice suggested that the ECB did in fact have that mandate. This judicial battle for the Euro, however, is only part of a story that involves political power struggles between Merkel and Tsipras; that saw the emergence of ideological schisms in the EU; and created the real risk that for the first time a Member State would be forced to leave the EU.

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Keywords: Euro-crisis, austerity, Grexit, Merkel, OMT, ordo-liberal, EMU , ECJ, German constitutional court


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Date posted: November 16, 2015  

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Wilkinson, Michael A., Austerity, Grexit and the Battle for the Euro (November 11, 2015). LSE Law - Policy Briefing Paper No. 10. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2689045 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2689045

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Michael A. Wilkinson (Contact Author)
London School of Economics - Law Department ( email )
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London WC2A 2AE, WC2A 2AE
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