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The COVID-19 Crisis: The EU Recovery Fund and its Implications for European Integration – a Paradigm Shift
European Review ( IF 0.8 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-19 , DOI: 10.1017/s106279872100003x
Chih-Mei Luo

The EU’s latest decision on adopting the recovery fund was revolutionary, both quantitatively and qualitatively. It would also dominate the EU’s economic governance of the decade of the 2020s. This article is an attempt to evaluate whether the EU’s recovery fund was the right policy answers to the post-COVID-19 EU economy or not, and explore its meanings and implications for European integration. This article argues that COVID-19 hit the EU at a time of health and social precariousness, and proved the conventional economic governance unsustainable. Necessities for game-changing in the post-COVID-19 economic governance were justified on both practical and moral grounds. Judging with these yardsticks, the EU’s recovery fund was evaluated as a welcomed paradigm shift in both the ideology and methodology of its economic governance. Beyond a contemporary economic rescue package, the recovery fund implied laying the cornerstone of completing a fiscal union in the Eurozone, for enhancing institutional functions of the European Commission, and for rediscovering the nature of European integration as the rescuer of national states, through the newly-forming consensus between Eurosceptic nationalists and pro-EU integrationists. This article reminds us that the COVID-19 crisis was a crucial opportunity for EU leadership to legitimize the EU’s existence in the post-Brexit era. If well implemented, the recovery fund could usher in a new chapter of European integration. If it fails, European integration would be at risk of further fragmentation and entrench into an ever-stronger anti-EU populism.



中文翻译:

COVID-19 危机:欧盟复苏基金及其对欧洲一体化的影响——范式转变

欧盟关于采用复苏基金的最新决定在数量和质量上都是革命性的。它还将主导欧盟在 2020 年代十年的经济治理。本文试图评估欧盟的复苏基金是否是应对 COVID-19 后欧盟经济的正确政策答案,并探讨其对欧洲一体化的意义和影响。本文认为,COVID-19 在健康和社会不稳定时期袭击了欧盟,并证明了传统的经济治理是不可持续的。在 COVID-19 后经济治理中改变游戏规则的必要性在实践和道德方面都是合理的。从这些标准来看,欧盟的复苏基金在其经济治理的意识形态和方法论上都被认为是一个受欢迎的范式转变。除了当代经济救助计划之外,复苏基金还意味着为在欧元区建立财政联盟奠定基石,加强欧盟委员会的机构职能,并通过新的- 在疑欧民族主义者和亲欧盟一体化主义者之间形成共识。这篇文章提醒我们,COVID-19 危机是欧盟领导层在后脱欧时代使欧盟的存在合法化的重要机会。如果实施得当,复苏基金可能会开启欧洲一体化的新篇章。如果失败,欧洲一体化将面临进一步分裂的风险,并陷入越来越强烈的反欧盟民粹主义。复苏基金意味着通过欧洲怀疑主义民族主义者和欧洲怀疑论者之间新形成的共识,为在欧元区建立财政联盟奠定基石,以加强欧盟委员会的机构职能,并重新发现欧洲一体化作为民族国家救助者的本质。亲欧盟的一体化主义者。这篇文章提醒我们,COVID-19 危机是欧盟领导层在后脱欧时代使欧盟的存在合法化的重要机会。如果实施得当,复苏基金可能会开启欧洲一体化的新篇章。如果失败,欧洲一体化将面临进一步分裂的风险,并陷入越来越强烈的反欧盟民粹主义。复苏基金意味着通过欧洲怀疑主义民族主义者和欧洲怀疑论者之间新形成的共识,为在欧元区建立财政联盟奠定基石,以加强欧盟委员会的机构职能,并重新发现欧洲一体化作为民族国家救助者的本质。亲欧盟的一体化主义者。这篇文章提醒我们,COVID-19 危机是欧盟领导层在后脱欧时代使欧盟的存在合法化的重要机会。如果实施得当,复苏基金可能会开启欧洲一体化的新篇章。如果失败,欧洲一体化将面临进一步分裂的风险,并陷入越来越强烈的反欧盟民粹主义。并通过欧洲怀疑民族主义者和亲欧盟一体化主义者之间新形成的共识,重新发现欧洲一体化作为民族国家拯救者的本质。这篇文章提醒我们,COVID-19 危机是欧盟领导层在后脱欧时代使欧盟的存在合法化的重要机会。如果实施得当,复苏基金可能会开启欧洲一体化的新篇章。如果失败,欧洲一体化将面临进一步分裂的风险,并陷入越来越强烈的反欧盟民粹主义。并通过欧洲怀疑民族主义者和亲欧盟一体化主义者之间新形成的共识,重新发现欧洲一体化作为民族国家拯救者的本质。这篇文章提醒我们,COVID-19 危机是欧盟领导层在后脱欧时代使欧盟的存在合法化的重要机会。如果实施得当,复苏基金可能会开启欧洲一体化的新篇章。如果失败,欧洲一体化将面临进一步分裂的风险,并陷入越来越强烈的反欧盟民粹主义。如果实施得当,复苏基金可能会开启欧洲一体化的新篇章。如果失败,欧洲一体化将面临进一步分裂的风险,并陷入越来越强烈的反欧盟民粹主义。如果实施得当,复苏基金可能会开启欧洲一体化的新篇章。如果失败,欧洲一体化将面临进一步分裂的风险,并陷入越来越强烈的反欧盟民粹主义。

更新日期:2021-03-19
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