Solidarity in the EU after 2020; prospects for the cohesion “policy space"
Abstract
In 2020, the EU established the “Recovery and Resilience Facility” (RRF), which aims at promoting its economic, social, and territorial cohesion. This development has had a significant impact on the institutional architecture of cohesion policy, which is widely viewed as the main “EU solidarity tool”. The goal of this paper is to map the institutional configuration of “old” and “new” funding programs devoted to the promotion of cohesion and solidarity in Europe through the lenses of public policy analysis and historical institutionalism. It is argued that despite its impressive redistributive impact in territorial terms, the new Facility does not represent a break from the past when it comes to the quality of its solidarity content. On top of that, by adding RRF in a “cohesion policy space” burdened with old and new policy goals and means and lacking a clear territorial and social focus, EU actors have further undermined both the coherence and the solidarity impact of “old” cohesion policy.
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Andreou, G. (2022). Solidarity in the EU after 2020; prospects for the cohesion “policy space". Perifereia, 13(13), 65–90. https://doi.org/10.12681/rp.30756
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