Book Review Fabian Amtenbrink/Christoph Herrmann (eds), The EU Law of Economic and Monetary Union, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020, LLXXIX + 1,648 p, 340,43 €/295,00 £, ISBN 978-0-19-879374-8

Ever since its creation in 1992, the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), has further developed. Like the entire European Union (EU), this has led to more and deeper EU integration. Overcoming crises by common solutions has driven EU integration on several occasions.²²For a theorisation of crisis-driven EU integration see Franz Schimmelfennig, Theorising Crises in European Integration, in Desmond Dinan ea (eds), The European Union in Crisis (2017) 316. From 2010 onwards, the financial and sovereign debt crisis expedited that development for the EMU. Fabian Amtenbrink and Christoph Herrmann’s edited volume comprehensively puts the numerous developments in the EMU before, during and after the sovereign and financial debt crisis in the spotlight. In the introduction, the editors compare the overview-like character of textbook chapters to the provision-centric nature of article-by-article commentaries and the zoom-in approach of monographs and edited volumes (para 1.4³³The paragraphs in parenthesis refer to the paragraphs in the edited volume.). The editors – assisted by René Repasi – chose to create an edited volume (Preface) with handbook character, whose aim, scope and approach is “to provide […] [a] systematic, comprehensive, and at the same time contextual study of the legal framework pertaining to EMU" (para 1.5). Nonetheless, the book is not limited to the EU-internal scope of the EMU, but it also includes instruments on the outskirts of the Union legal order, such as the Treaty on the Stability, Coordination and Governance in the European Union (TSCG)⁴⁴Treaty on the Stability, Coordination and Governance in the European Union (signed on 2 February 2012, entry into force on 1 January 2013). and the Treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism (ESM Treaty)⁵⁵Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism (signed on 2 February 2012, entry into force 27 September 2012). (para 1.6). Moreover, the contributions have not been limited to a purely legal perspective,