Reconfiguring EU II: Finally a spending state? Measuring competence and control in EU resources

Abstract

The European Union has traditionally been described as a regulatory state – strong on legislative and judicial competences for making binding rules but weak on executive competences and resources. However, recent developments – from the building of fiscal capacity through the European Stability Mechanism and the European Central Bank to the current plans to contribute to financing Europe’s rearmament – suggest a gradual reconfiguration of the EU’s polity model. This panel unites papers that study these developments empirically. Drawing on competence-control theory they conceptualize and measure the shape and nature of these changes in different policy areas (budget, social, industrial and defense policy as well as boundary governance).

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