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It is now a well established fact that the immediacy of information and close connections between one point of the planet and another are forcing governments to act instantly. The European Union does not escape this rule. As a Union of law its response leads to legislative activity that suffers the tight constraint of topical issues. For example before the “Six Pack” had even entered into force on 13th December 2011,1 in a bid to settle the euro crisis, the European Union and its Member States were organising the introduction of a new Treaty to restore the States’ budgetary credibility.
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Laignelot, JB., Delmas, N. (2013). The growing influence of topical issues in legislative activity: limited political, but innovative and responsive, initiative. In: Chopin, T., Foucher, M. (eds) Schuman Report on Europe. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0451-4_21
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