Reference : Making Next Generation EU a permanent tool
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Law / European Law; Sustainable Development
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54585
Making Next Generation EU a permanent tool
English
Allemand, Frederic mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Department of Law (DL) >]
Creel, Jérôme [OFCE > Direction des études > > Directeur]
Saraceno, Francesco [OFCE > Direction des études > > Directeur adjoint]
Levasseur, Sandrine [OFCE > > > Senior Researcher]
Leron, Nicolas [SciencesPo Paris - CEVIPOF > > > Associate Researcher]
Mar-2023
FEPS
FEPS Policy Study
23
9782931233085
Brussels
Belgium
[en] European Economy ; Next Generation EU ; Public Goods ; Fiscal capacity ; Ecological transition ; European Democracy
[en] The policy study assesses the possible scope and the technical and legal difficulties in implementing a "permanent Next-Generation EU (NGEU)", a central fiscal capacity for the EU, without ever losing sight of the democratic requirement.
The implementation of NGEU has raised coordination issues between the member states as to the allocation of funds across structural priorities (e.g. ecological transition vs digitalisation) and across countries. To these coordination difficulties, Section 2 adds the issue of the democratic legitimacy of EU policies when supranational priorities constrain the autonomy of national parliaments.
The problem of accountability is not new when one thinks that supranational rules, such as the Stability and Growth Pact, impose limits on the power of parliaments to "tax and spend"; in fact, the intrinsic logic of coordination is to force (political) discretionary power to comply with (macroeconomic) functional imperatives; this inevitably produces a form of depoliticisation of fiscal policy. Throughout this policy study, we constantly keep in mind that transforming NGEU into a permanent programme offers an opportunity to fix this depoliticisation of EU policies and open a window for a breakthrough to a "political Europe".
European Parliament
Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, IEV, OFCE
Researchers ; Professionals ; Students
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54585

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