nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230814-104247-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230814s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230814-104247-0 doi eng 342 23 Leino-Sandberg, Päivi Author aut How Cohesion Became the EU’s Vehicle for Economic Policy - Tracing the Hidden History of Article 175(3) TFEU Leino-Sandberg, Päivi Verfassungsblog 2023-08-14 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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? CC BY-SA 4.0 Cohesion Council emu European Economic and Monetary Union Legal Service NextGenerationEU NGEU Lindseth, Peter Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/how-cohesion-became-the-eus-vehicle-for-economic-policy/ raw object