Intergovernmental integration within supranational policymaking : the European Council's role in the EU's financial response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorCAPATI, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-27T10:20:53Z
dc.date.available2025-05-27T10:20:53Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 26 May 2025
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the European Union (EU)'s financial response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To do so, it traces the role of the European Council in the policymaking process for the establishment of two innovative financial instruments – the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and the general regime of conditionality (GRC) for the protection of the Union's budget, both adopted through the ordinary legislative procedure (OLP) of the supranational system. Combining insights from the ‘new intergovernmentalism’ and the ‘emergency politics’ literatures, the article argues that, in times of emergency, consensus becomes the guiding norm of European integration through the leading role of the European Council even in the context of majority-based supranational policymaking. The article shows that in both cases the European Council exercised quasi-legislative decision-making powers, thereby limiting the role of other EU institutions. This contributes to turning the post-Maastricht paradox of ‘integration without supranational policymaking’ into the new paradox of ‘intergovernmental integration within supranational policymaking’.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by REGROUP (Rebuilding Governance and Resilience out of the Pandemic), a Horizon Europe’s project under Grant 101060825.
dc.identifier.citationEuropean politics and society, 2025, OnlineFirst
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/23745118.2025.2509012
dc.identifier.issn2374-5118
dc.identifier.issn2374-5126
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/92725
dc.language.isoen
dc.orcid.putcode1814/80800:184834518
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relationRebuilding governance and resilience out of the pandemic
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean politics and society
dc.subjectCOVID-19 pandemic
dc.subjectEmergency politics
dc.subjectEuropean Council
dc.subjectGeneral regime of conditionality (GRC)
dc.subjectNew intergovernmentalism
dc.titleIntergovernmental integration within supranational policymaking : the European Council's role in the EU's financial response to the COVID-19 pandemic
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