14 August 2023
How Cohesion Became the EU’s Vehicle for Economic Policy
In Brussels, something remarkable has happened in the last four years. Cohesion policy—which had heretofore been a policy backwater, aimed at addressing regional disparities—has emerged as the EU’s primary vehicle for reshaping economic and related fiscal policies in the Member States. As a result, any economic or fiscal policy measure that can be plausibly described as a structural reform (primarily an area of Member State competence, subject to Union coordination) can now be reframed as a measure of EU cohesion policy (a shared competence) that can be supported by EU funds to incentivize compliance. How did this happen? Continue reading >>
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11 December 2020
Rule-of-Law Conditionality and Resource Mobilization – the Foundations of a Genuinely ‘Constitutional’ EU?
The compromise negotiated by the German Presidency and agreed at the European Council’s meeting of 10-11 December has been roundly criticized for subordinating the hopes for a robust rule-of-law conditionality to the imperatives of "Next Generation Europe". From our perspective, the result may put the EU on the path toward a genuinely ‘constitutional’ transformation, one truly worthy of the name, rather than persisting as a system that is unable to mobilize resources in amounts commensurate with the challenges facing it. Continue reading >>
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05 April 2012
Target2 Imbalances and the “Demokratieprinzip”: Some Questions
By PETER LINDSETH One main effect of the Eurozone crisis […] Continue reading >>28 February 2012
Rescue Package for Fundamental Rights: Further Comments from PETER LINDSETH
It is a tribute to the thoughtfulness of the Heidelberg […] Continue reading >>
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18 February 2012
Rescue Package for Fundamental Rights: Comments by PETER LINDSETH
I’d like to thank Alexandra, Max, and Christoph for inviting […] Continue reading >>02 February 2012