Since the 1990s, EU competencies have developed rapidly in the areas of migration and asylum but have been far less able to develop regulatory competencies for labour migration from outside the EU. The only migration concerns the EU had before the Maastricht Treaty, in 1992, were the movement of EU citizens for economic purposes....

The Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) encompasses the legislative text and political resolutions regulating fiscal policy and public finances in EMU. The contributions in this volume analyze the institutional, legal, theoretical and empirical aspects of the SGP, examine its development and evaluate its main implications....