Next Generation EU and the Recovery and Resilience Facility: a new governance model for the EU distributive policies II

Abstract

Next Generation EU, adopted in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, features as the largest redistributive programme ever adopted in the EU, based on both loans and grants. Four years on, scholars are providing the first insights about the implementation of the programme and, in particular, how it has served to (re)shape employment and social policy in the Member States. Dealing with country case studies ranging across North and South, or taking a broader, transversal perspective, the papers in this panel aim to recontextualize the implementation of the RRF, putting into a historical perspective. Far from emerging out of a policy void, the pursuit of the recovery agenda takes much inspiration from former policies, including cohesion policy or the European Social Fund, as well as formerly existing soft coordination in the framework of the European Semester. This begs the question of whether – and how – the RRF has been a game changer, or constitutes a new model, with regard to pre-existing dynamics in terms of policy compliance and political legitimation of reforms.

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Engine, brake or steering wheel? Social policy reform and the European vincolo esterno in Portugal in the 21st century	View Paper Details
Rethinking the Governance of the Cohesion Policy Funds: Is the Recovery and Resilience Facility a Model?	View Paper Details
The Impact of the RRF in the North – Are baby carrots enough to increase compliance in Germany?	View Paper Details
Tilting the Balance: The Recovery and Resilience Facility and Labor Market Reforms Inside the Italian Political Laboratory	View Paper Details