The Court of Justice’s Self-restraint of Reviewing Financial Assistance Conditionality in the Chrysostomides Case

• Isabel Staudinger ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Salzburg

     University of Salzburg

     Salzburg, Austria

     
• Localización: European papers: a journal on law and integration, ISSN-e 2499-8249, Vol. 6, Nº. 1, 2021, págs. 177-188
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In the Chrysostomides case (joined cases C-597/18 P, C-598/18 P, C-603/18 P and C-604/18 P Council v Chrysostomides & Co. and Others ECLI:EU:C:2020:1028), the Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed its previous finding that the Eurogroup has only an informal and intergovernmental nature. Building on the cases Ledra and Mallis, the ECJ finally denied the respective possibilities of EU legal protection against acts and conduct of the Eurogroup. Moreover, the ECJ denied the binding nature of art. 2(6)(b) of Council Decision (EU) 2013/236, a decision with which the conditionality of the macro-economic adjustment programme had been brought under the auspices of EU law. As a consequence, the Eurogroup’s acts and conduct as well as conditionality measures cannot be reviewed on the EU level.