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EU Policymaking at a Crossroads
Negotiating the 2021–2027 Budget
9781788977647 Edward Elgar Publishing
For readers interested in an overview of what led to the adoption of the European Union’s Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and its aftermath, this book traces the discursive dynamics and milestones of the negotiations around the MFF and the new recovery instrument, aimed at alleviating the economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.
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For readers interested in an overview of what led to the adoption of the European Union’s Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and its aftermath, this book traces the discursive dynamics and milestones of the negotiations around the MFF and the new recovery instrument, aimed at alleviating the economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Covering the negotiations of the current MFF, contributions by both scholarly experts in their respective policy areas and authors close to the policy community in Brussels provide a well rounded insight into this discerning topic. Chapters explore the issues that unfolded during the negotiations of the MFF and recovery package against the backdrop of conflicts over solidarity, identity and sovereignty and thus the scope of cooperation and membership as well as institutional design and authority. EU Policymaking at a Crossroads anticipates, describes and discursively explains changes in selected policy areas, looking into the negotiations, effects and reflections surrounding them.
This timely book will be a highly beneficial read for academics and students in the fields of international relations, European politics and public policy. Scholars specializing in multilevel governance of different policy areas such as sustainability, agriculture and migration will also profit from this comprehensive book.
Covering the negotiations of the current MFF, contributions by both scholarly experts in their respective policy areas and authors close to the policy community in Brussels provide a well rounded insight into this discerning topic. Chapters explore the issues that unfolded during the negotiations of the MFF and recovery package against the backdrop of conflicts over solidarity, identity and sovereignty and thus the scope of cooperation and membership as well as institutional design and authority. EU Policymaking at a Crossroads anticipates, describes and discursively explains changes in selected policy areas, looking into the negotiations, effects and reflections surrounding them.
This timely book will be a highly beneficial read for academics and students in the fields of international relations, European politics and public policy. Scholars specializing in multilevel governance of different policy areas such as sustainability, agriculture and migration will also profit from this comprehensive book.
Critical Acclaim
‘Budget negotiations are often considered to be mostly rational and interest-based processes. Negotiations about the EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) in particular tend to be analysed as classical domains of fierce intergovernmental bargaining between EU member states. This edited volume goes beyond the rationalist assumptions and zooms onto the “struggle over ideas”. By introducing an interpretive approach to the study of policymaking, this excellent collection makes an essential contribution to research on EU integration. With its focus on meaning as manifest in persuasion and justification, the book provides insights into the politicization and polarization encountered in different policy areas at a point in time, when the EU was, once again, considered to be “at a crossroads”.’
– Frank Nullmeier, Bremen University, Germany
– Frank Nullmeier, Bremen University, Germany
Contributors
Contributors: Marlon Barbehön, Peter Becker, Peter Biegelbauer, Basil Bornemann, Antoine de Cabanes, Michael Dinges, Peter H. Feindt, Clement Fontan, Pascal Grohman, Astrid Häger, Hubert Heinelt, Katja Lamprecht, Sybille Münch, Wolfgang Petzold, Uwe Puetter, Sabine Saurugger, Matthias Weber
Contents
Contents:
PART I THE NEGOTIATIONS ABOUT THE
MULTIANNUAL FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK
2021–2027 AND THEIR CONTEXT
1 The EU at a crossroads. Negotiations about the
Multiannual Financial Framework 2021–2027:
Introduction to the book 2
Hubert Heinelt and Sybille Münch
2 The negotiations about the Multiannual Financial
Framework 2021–2027: What happened when with what result? 30
Peter Becker
3 A decisive moment of governing: budgeting (in) the time of crisis 56
Marlon Barbehön
4 The Euro crisis: the battle of ideas how to address it– and
its effects on European integration 75
Clément Fontan and Antoine de Cabanes
PART II POLICY CHANGES
5 The CAP post-2020 reform and the EU budget process 96
Peter H. Feindt, Pascal Grohmann and Astrid Häger
6 The 2021 reform of EU cohesion policy in context of the
negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework 123
Wolfgang Petzold
7 Sustainabilising Europe in times of crisis? The
meta-policy role of the European Green Deal in the
context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the negotiations
on the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework 145
Basil Bornemann
8 The Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021–2027 and
the struggle over ideas about migration and border management 173
Sybille Münch
9 EU research, technological development and innovation policy 203
Matthias Weber, Peter Biegelbauer, Michael Dinges and
Katja Lamprecht
PART III DO WE HAVE TO RECONSIDER THEORIES
OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION?
10 Consensus politics and EU disequilibrium: the German
Council Presidency 2021 and the rule of law mechanism 234
Uwe Puetter
11 What do the negotiations about the Multiannual
Financial Framework 2021–2027 mean for theories of
European integration? Reflections from an actor-centred
constructivist perspective 252
Sabine Saurugger
Index
PART I THE NEGOTIATIONS ABOUT THE
MULTIANNUAL FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK
2021–2027 AND THEIR CONTEXT
1 The EU at a crossroads. Negotiations about the
Multiannual Financial Framework 2021–2027:
Introduction to the book 2
Hubert Heinelt and Sybille Münch
2 The negotiations about the Multiannual Financial
Framework 2021–2027: What happened when with what result? 30
Peter Becker
3 A decisive moment of governing: budgeting (in) the time of crisis 56
Marlon Barbehön
4 The Euro crisis: the battle of ideas how to address it– and
its effects on European integration 75
Clément Fontan and Antoine de Cabanes
PART II POLICY CHANGES
5 The CAP post-2020 reform and the EU budget process 96
Peter H. Feindt, Pascal Grohmann and Astrid Häger
6 The 2021 reform of EU cohesion policy in context of the
negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework 123
Wolfgang Petzold
7 Sustainabilising Europe in times of crisis? The
meta-policy role of the European Green Deal in the
context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the negotiations
on the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework 145
Basil Bornemann
8 The Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021–2027 and
the struggle over ideas about migration and border management 173
Sybille Münch
9 EU research, technological development and innovation policy 203
Matthias Weber, Peter Biegelbauer, Michael Dinges and
Katja Lamprecht
PART III DO WE HAVE TO RECONSIDER THEORIES
OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION?
10 Consensus politics and EU disequilibrium: the German
Council Presidency 2021 and the rule of law mechanism 234
Uwe Puetter
11 What do the negotiations about the Multiannual
Financial Framework 2021–2027 mean for theories of
European integration? Reflections from an actor-centred
constructivist perspective 252
Sabine Saurugger
Index
