Next Generation EU and the Recovery and Resilience Facility: a new governance model for the EU distributive policies I

Abstract

Next Generation EU, adopted in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, features as the largest redistributive programme ever adopted in the EU, based on both loans and grants. Four years on, scholars are providing the first insights about the implementation of the programme and, in particular, how it has served to (re)shape employment and social policy in the Member States. The papers included in this panel study the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility in a comparative perspective and providing data in several countries. Examining in detail the political and institutional mechanisms involved in the implementation process, for instance conditionality, they provide assessments over its effectiveness and, more broadly, what it means with regard to longer trends in the Europeanization of national policy making. A focus on how care policies (and its gendered dimension) are dealt with in the RRF provides a more specific understanding of how the implementation of the RRF matters for European societies.

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Governing the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility: National Plans and Performance-Based Financing in Theory and Practice	View Paper Details
Negotiating and Implementing the Recovery and Resilience Facility: Coordinative Europeanization and EU Conditionality	View Paper Details
Care to reform: what role for gender equality in NGEU?	View Paper Details