Let me start by welcoming you once again to the weekly sales lunchtime seminars.

It's very good to have you all here and particularly good to welcome today's speaker Dr.

Christina Fazone, who is a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI in Florence.

Christina is a doctoral doctorate at University of Siena and has been working

very steadily and consistently on issues relating to national parliaments and constitutional courts,

particularly in the context of the Euro crisis, and that really is framing today's talk,

where she's going to talk about the relationship between constitutional courts and parliaments

in the Euro crisis

and from a comparative perspective. So, Christina, thank you so much for taking time to come

and speak to us today.

Thank you very much.

Thanks a lot for these invitations. It's really an honor to be here and to present my ongoing work on the topic,

which is part of a broader research project run by the EU law department on constitutional change through Eurocrisis law.

Maybe it's good to clarify immediately what I mean by Euro crisis law.

I take a quite broad concept, which includes international measures taken in reaction to the Eurozone crisis.

So intergovernmental agreements like the fiscal compact

or the treaty on the European stability mechanism,

as well as memorandum of understanding negotiated,

for example, as an exchange of the financial assistance to some bailout countries, and also EU law,

so the six-pack and the two-pack, as well as the amendment of Article 136 of the Treaty

on the Functioning of the European Union, but also national measures of implementation

or application of these international and European measures.

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