@book{2022:wessels:the_europe,
title = {The European Council as a Crisis Manager},
year = {2022},
note = {Faced with the deepest economic crisis in its history, the European
Union established a seminal COVID-19 recovery package relying on
common debt. This book analyses the European Council’s key role as a
crisis manager and transformative force of the EU system. Combining
thick descriptions of the history-making events of 2020-21 with EU
theorising, we explain and critically assess the innovative set-up of
the recovery package. Inside the European Council, we find a
remarkable impetus for political consensus among national leaders.
However, their detailed and ambiguous decisions at times came at the
cost of political delay, legal uncertainty, and thin public scrutiny.},
edition = {},
publisher = {Nomos},
address = {Baden-Baden},
series = {Studies on the European Union},
volume = {19},
author = {Wessels, Wolfgang and Schramm, Lucas and Kunstein, Tobias}
}