ISSN 1574-0196

VOIJUME 9 Issue 2

Contributions bYI .Urêka Sadl, Violeta Ruiz Alrnendral, Patricia Popelier & CatherIne Van De Heyning,Cesare Pinelli, Luigi Lacchè, Carri Ginter, Filippo FontaneUi, Paul Craig

SubjectsEUROPEANUNION: post-narional governance and the democratie deficit; also the use of irsinstitutions outside the El.I legal{ramework; SrAIN and its legal framew~rk for combatingme crisis; an arialysis ofhow'tlieCOURT OFlUSTlCE OF THE EUROPuJUNIONconstructsits legal arguments; PROCEDURALRATlONALITYused to analyse proportionality; 'GRANTEDCONSTITUTlONS'in Europe after the French Revolution; THE COURT OF lUSTICE OF THEEUROPEANUNION rules on the relationship between national and European constiturionallaw in fundamental rights protection; THE SUPREMECOURT OF ESTONIAissues its own ruling

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CONTENTS

EditorialAfter Äkerberg Fransson and Melloni 169

Articles

Cesare PINELLI -The Discourses on Post-National Governance and theDemoeratic Deficit Absent an EU Government 177

Violeta Rtnz ALMENDRAL- The Spanish Legal Framework for Curbing thePublic Debt and the Deficit 189

Urska SADL- Case - Case-Law - Law: Ruiz Zambrano as an IllustrationofHow the Court ofJustice of the European Union Constructs lts LegalArguments 205

Patricia POPELIER& Catherine VAN DE HEYNING - Procedural Rationality:Giving Teeth to the Proportionality Analysis 230

Paul CRAIG - Pringle and Use of EU Institutions outside the EU LegalFramework: Foundations, Procedure and Substance 263

Luigi UCCHÈ - Granted Constitutions. The Theory of octroi andConstitutional Experiments in Europe in the Aftermath of the FrenchRevolution 285

Case Notes

Filippo FONTANELLI- Hic Sunt Nationes: The Elusive Limits of the EU Charterand the German Constitutional Watchdog - Court of Justice of the EuropeanUnion, Judgment of26 February 2013, Case C-617/10, Äklagaren v. HansÄkerberg Fransson 315

Carri GINTER - Constitutionality of the European Stability Mechanism inEstonia: Applying Proportionality to Sovereignty 335