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In person icon Building: Viale Romania, Floor: 2, Room: A209
Friday 11:00 - 12:30 CEST (10/06/2022)
This panel aims to investigate the relationship between the politicization of EU policy making and the nature of EU economic and fiscal policy in the light of the transformations brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. As the socioeconomic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe became clearer in the early months of 2020, a substantive shift in the EU economic governance began in earnest. While not a complete paradigm shift, the new constellation has unlocked power relations, reconfigured policy instruments, and broken a number of ideational taboos. In the decade from the Eurozone crisis to the breakout of the pandemic, some scholars had pointed to disintegrative or constraining forms of politicization of EU policy making, while others had stressed the de-politicization of EU economic governance or pointed to a complex dialectic between the two. The coming of age of the so-called recovery agenda – which supplements the EU’s ordo-liberal governance architecture with an important set of tools epitomizing embryonic forms of fiscal federalism – seems to call a number of assumptions or arguments into question. By investigating various forms of politicization driven by various actors, the papers gathered in this panel address a set of three inter-related questions: which forms of politicization pertaining to the EU governance of economic and fiscal policy have manifested themselves in the run-up to 2020 and during the unfolding of the pandemic? How and to what extent has politicization proved constraining or enabling with regard to the further centralization of EU economic and fiscal governance? How (if at all) does the EU post-pandemic economic and fiscal governance serve to reconfigure the relation between politicization in domestic arenas and politicization in the EU arena?
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A Hamiltonian moment for European Solidarity? Politicization and Domestic Ratifications of the European Financial Stability Facility and the Own Resources Decision | View Paper Details |
Politicisation “at the bottom”: how national parliaments make sense of change in EU Economic Governance | View Paper Details |
The European Commission and EMU reform: from constraining to empowering politicisation? | View Paper Details |
Whither politicization? The reputational politics of the ECB in face of the climate catastrophe. | View Paper Details |