1 EXECUTIVE POWER IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE EURO CRISIS Sergio Fabbrini Sergio Fabbrini is Director of the School of Government and Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, where he holds a Jean Monnet Chair. He was the Editor of the Italian Journal of Political Science from 2003 to 2009. He is Recurrent Visiting Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science and Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California at Berkeley. Among his recent publications, Compound Democracies: Why the United States and Europe Are Becoming Similar, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2010 (second updated edition) and, Which European Union? Europe After the Euro Crisis, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015. Address: sfabbrini@luiss.it Paper submitted at the panel on “The Changing Politics of the EU Council”, EUSA 14 th Biennial Conference, Boston, 5-8 March 2015. A previous version of the paper has been discussed at the workshop on “The centrality of the European Council and the Council in EU decision-making”, Center for European Union Research (CEUR), Central European University (CEU), Budapest, 28 November 2014. brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Archive of European Integration