1. Table of contents

2. Introduction: Legitimacy issues of the European Union

3. Part One: Looking for appropriate concepts: Legitimacy and European Democracy

4. Deliberative democracy: within and beyond the state

5. "All good things come in threes": from a double to a triple democratic legitimacy of the European Union

6. No representation without taxation in the European Union

7. People and peoples in EU law to debunk the no-demos myth

8. Part two: Economic measures and european courts in times of crisis

9. Causes of the financial crisis and causes of citizen resentment in Europe: What law has to do with it

10. The role of judges and legislators in the Greek financial crisis: A matter of competence

11. The OMT case and the judicial control of monetary policy

12. The material core of the constitution: A nationalidentity-based limitation of European integration or a focus of shared European values?

13. The impressive resilience of the Greek Constitution in the curent financial crisis in Europe

14. Part three: Citizens, rights and new techniques for enhancing legitimacy

15. Opinion 2/13 of the European Court of Justice in the context of multilevel protection of fundamental rights and multilevel constitutionalism revisited

16. Towards a right to care in EU law: Issues of legitimacy, gender and citizenship