Conseqüències institucionals de la limitació del deute públic a les Comunitats Autònomes i als Länder. Un anàlisi comparat dels mecanismes de control de l’estabilitat pressupostària a Espanya i Alemanya
Full Text
Share
This article aims to analyze, from a comparative law perspective, the control
mechanisms take in place to ensure compliance with the constitutional
limitation of government debt in German and Spain. Specifically were analyzed,
the German law creating the Stability Council to prevent situations
of budget crisis, compared to the Spanish Law of Budgetary Stability and
Financial Sustainability, with particular emphasis on the procedures, intervention
measures and organs created to enforce structural deficit limits set by
the European Union. This comparative analysis allows us to contrast two very
different ways of dealing with the obligations stipulated by the European
Union on the limitation of public debt in the composite States. In the German
case, the federal law submits both levels of territorial administration (Bund
and Länder) to the control of a joint participation body (StabilitätsRat). In
the Spanish case the state law submits the regional levels to strict control
by the Ministry of Finance and limited the role of the Council of Fiscal and
Financial Policy to merely advisory functions. This not only does not give a
satisfactory response to any failure by the State Administration, but it causes
imbalance between the State and the Autonomous Communities