Today I'm very pleased to welcome Professor Mark Dawson from the Hirtys School of Governance in Berlin.

Mark has did his PhD at the EUI in Florence and then worked in the Masterastricht for three years and has been in Berlin

the last three years and we kind of occupy slightly parallel universes for a number of years

working on issues of EU governance and looking particularly EU social governance and And in the more recent years, Mark has been writing and researching on the impact of the crisis on

European constitutionalism in generally.

And today he's going to speak about from balanced conflict, European constitutionalism after the crisis.

So it's lovely to have a year, Mark. Thank you.

Okay, thank you very much, Kenneth, for that very warm welcome into the European Law Center here for inviting me.

I saw that sort of the Euro crisis is a bit of a theme with some of the speakers you've had in the last few weeks.

And I wonder, you know, topics in academia can be a bit like sort of boy bands or something.

You know, they're very popular, everyone loves them, at some point people get sort of sick of them and want to hear about something else. So I hope that sort of I bands or something. You know, they're very popular, everyone loves them, and at some point people get sort of sick

of them and want to hear about something else.

I hope that sort of I can add something on top of what those people have talked about.

And I know also that many, quite a few of you here in Cambridge are also writing with similar issues,

so I'm really looking forward to your feedback. This paper that I want to present today

is actually based on an earlier paper, it's kind of a follow-up to an earlier paper that was published

last year in the Modern Law Review that I worked on with Flores de Vita from the LSEC called

Constitutional Balance in the European Union and it was intended that paper is a kind of diagnostic paper.

So the purpose of the paper was to think about, well, how has the Euro crisis

and how has the response to the Euro crisis change the constitutional structure of the EU?

But like many academic papers, this is something that us academics are not always very

good at. It wasn't a very forward-looking paper, right? So it assumes that the crisis had

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