New frontiers of EU funding : law, policy, politics

Abstract

Sovereign debt, migration, and the pandemic were some of the most significant catalysts for innovation in EU funding since 2020, and these often-controversial innovations have given rise to complex legal issues. New Frontiers of EU Funding: Law, Policy, Politics analyzes EU funding in the broader context of the EU budget and funding law and practice to make sense of the rapidly shifting landscape. Bringing together a diverse team of scholars and practitioners, the chapters in this volume provide a detailed overview and evaluation of three new frontiers of EU funding. The first considers why and how innovations in EU funding have increasingly been driven 'off-budget.' The second is centered around rule of law concerns: whether the EU has overstepped a normative frontier, or whether it should rather be viewed as having made astute and imaginative use of available legal pathways in creating new EU funding streams. The third frontier considers whether and how new EU funding has entered and fundamentally reshaped the terrain of substantive EU law and policy. Policy-oriented and reflective, this book makes the case for legal scholars to pay increasing attention to the EU budget in a wider context and is a valuable resource for legal scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the new drivers and mechanisms of EU funding.