http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20230814-104247-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-cohesion-became-the-eus-vehicle-for-economic-policy/ How Cohesion Became the EU’s Vehicle for Economic Policy - Tracing the Hidden History of Article 175(3) TFEU Leino-Sandberg, Päivi Lindseth, Peter eng 2023-08-14 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Cohesion Council emu European Economic and Monetary Union Legal Service NextGenerationEU NGEU Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 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?