Fiscal Stability Rules in Central European Constitutions
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Fiscal Stability Rules in Central European Constitutions
Original language description
The so called Fiscal Compact signed by 25 out of 27 EU member states requires the states to transpose the treaty's rules that limit the annual structural deficit and the general government debt "through provisions of binding force and permanent character, preferably constitutional" (Art. 3, §2). While the goal is set, the means are up to respective states, and thus an extraordinary wave of constitutional engineering has been triggered. This paper deals with four countries in Central Europe which have already adopted fiscal stability rules into their law: Germany, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. It describes the rules adopted and demonstrates that despite some similarities, four wholly distinct models of regulation have been used in these countries. Thesemodels are further examined and compared, in particular with respect to their substance (numerical, or institutional fiscal rules), criteria used (state debt, overall public debt, state budget deficit, or structural deficit) and enforcem
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AG - Legal sciences
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GPP408%2F11%2FP366" target="_blank" >GPP408/11/P366: The Parliamentary Form of Government in the Czech Republic and the Possibilities for its Rationalisation</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
The Constitutionalization of European Budgetary Constraints
ISBN
978-1-84946-580-9
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
205-222
Number of pages of the book
444
Publisher name
Hart Publishing
Place of publication
Oxford
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