Skip to main content
Vai all'homepage della Commissione europea (si apre in una nuova finestra)
italiano it
CORDIS - Risultati della ricerca dell’UE
CORDIS

Residual executive power (REXPO). EU institutional balance and regulatory patterns after the Covid19 crisis

Descrizione del progetto

Uno sguardo più attento alle dinamiche normative post-pandemia

La pandemia di COVID-19 ha costretto l’UE a ricorrere a strumenti normativi non convenzionali, discostandosi dalle procedure legislative consolidate. Questo allontanamento dalla norma ha sollevato interrogativi sul cambiamento del panorama di governance dell’UE e sulle possibili conseguenze per la legittimità democratica. Con il supporto del programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA), il progetto REXPO approfondisce questi cambiamenti determinanti nelle pratiche normative post-pandemia. Tramite casi di studio empirici, REXPO rivela un rafforzamento delle funzioni esecutive della Commissione. Questo potenziamento, definito «residuo», emerge da necessità dettate dalla pandemia, anziché che da cambiamenti politici intenzionali. Nel complesso, l’approccio interdisciplinare del progetto fa luce sulle ramificazioni legali e politiche della pandemia per la governance e la legittimità democratica dell’UE, sottolineando l’importanza di trasformazioni istituzionali trascurate.

Obiettivo

REXPO investigates shifts in EU regulatory practices following the Covid-19 pandemic. To contrast the pandemic the EU has mobilised unconventional legal tools such as financial assistance, cohesion policy or soft-law coordination, which fundamentally deviate from the community-method as the traditional EU law-making process. REXPO analyses the impact of this post-pandemic landscape on EU governance. Its central research question asks how the EU response to the pandemic has changed the nature of EU regulation and how new regulatory practices have affected the EU institutional balance in general and EU executive power in particular.
The project focuses on the relationship between executive power and the unconventional regulatory instruments mobilised to face the crisis. It resorts to four empirical case-studies encompassing: the temporary recovery instrument NextGenerationEU, the unemployment financing scheme SURE, the distribution of vaccines, and soft-law coordination in the field of health policy. As these tools are all steered by the Commission, REXPO argues that they have strengthened the Commissions executive functions, while moving away from the Community Method. Using a historical institutionalist lens, REXPO defines this increase in the Commissions executive power as residual, because it emerged as a secondary result of choices necessary to fight the pandemic and not from an intentional attribution of competences by political leaders.
REXPO combines empirical and theoretical research and adopts an innovative interdisciplinary approach to shed light on the legal and political consequences of the pandemic for EU governance and, eventually, for its democratic legitimacy. Whereas scholarship has focused on the political impact of the crisis and on the legality of the measures adopted, these interstitial institutional changes have passed unnoticed. However, precisely these changes can trigger a transformation of EU executive governance.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

Parole chiave

Programma(i)

Argomento(i)

Meccanismo di finanziamento

HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships

Vedi tutti i progetti finanziati nell’ambito di questo schema di finanziamento

Invito a presentare proposte

(si apre in una nuova finestra) HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01

Vedi tutti i progetti finanziati nell’ambito del bando

Coordinatore

HERTIE SCHOOL GEMMEINNUTZIGE GMBH
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 189 687,36
Indirizzo
FRIEDRICHSTRASSE 180
10117 Berlin
Germania
Regione
Berlin Berlin Berlin
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
Nessun dato