A contribution to legal theories of accountability, this book offers pioneering research on the position of the individual in the EU's Economic and Monetary Union. Its premise is that the EU's response to the financial crisis placed undue emphasis on equality of Member States, to the detriment of political equality of citizens. As a remedy, this book reimagines legal accountability as the vehicle for achieving the common interest, by presenting a novel understanding of the relationship between solidarity and equality. Institutionally, the author argues that, by carrying out intensive review of the duty to state reasons, courts can ensure that decision-makers act in the common interest. The book explores judicial review in financial assistance, the monetary policy mechanisms of the European Central Bank, and the Single Supervisory Mechanism. Looking into the future, it tests its theoretical and normative propositions on the newly established Next Generation EU. This book is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
About the speaker:
Ana Bobic is référendaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union in the cabinet of Advocate General Capeta, as well as Adjunct Faculty at the Hertie School and Affiliate Researcher of the Jacques Delors Centre. Until 2021, Ana was postdoctoral researcher at the LEVIATHAN Project at the Hertie School, working on questions of legal accountability in EU economic governance, with a specific focus on the position of the individual in the Economic and Monetary Union. She obtained her DPhil at the University of Oxford as a Law Faculty Graduate Assistance Fund scholar in 2018, where she was also lecturer in EU, Constitutional, and Administrative Law at Keble College and Worcester College. In 2022, she published her first monograph, The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Conflict in the EU, with Oxford University Press.