5. Economic Governance & the Rule of Law

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EU economic governance instruments and the rule of law

Work package 5 (WP5) will explore how the EU has launched a new strategy based on a series of complementary instruments steeped in judicial and techno-managerial mechanisms rooted in European economic governance and the regulation of the EU’s Single Market. This has been done in response to the apparent ineffectiveness of the political protection of the rule of law and democratic procedures within the EU. Implementation of this strategy partly involves the creation of dedicated mechanisms and partly the utilisation of instruments developed in the context of the surveillance of national policies or the application of EU law. 

WP5 will critically assess this new strategy by: 

  1. identifying the economic/techno managerial mechanisms mobilised; 
  2. analysing the consequences of this new approach for the protection of the rule of law and democracy within the EU; 
  3. considering how the resulting executive arbitrage between the rule of law and the economic and fiscal objectives pursued by Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) have had an impact on the politicisation of EU governance. 

Empirical focus

WP5 will focus on two aspects: 

  •  the use of economic/ techno-managerial instruments to achieve goals related to democracy and the rule of law within and outside the EU;
  •  the rise of conditionality (in its various forms) as the key governance device in the recovery agenda. 

Across both areas of investigation, the dynamics of politicisation and outcomes in terms of policy effectiveness and political legitimacy will be scrutinised. To this end, European Semester procedures and practices in a cross-section of Member States will be analysed before and after the operation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility.

Core tasks

The selected case studies will allow WP5 to assess the consequences of the new conditionality mechanisms on the politicisation of parliamentary debates and on the functioning of the constitutional order in different Member States.

  • Identify the techno-managerial socio-economic governance mechanism mobilised by the EU to monitor and promote liberal democratic principles Leader: HEC
  • Analyse the consequences of an EU Single Market driven approach to the protection of the rule of law and democracy within the EU Leader: HEC
  • Consider how the resulting executive arbitrage between the rule of law and the economic and fiscal objectives of EMU have had an impact on the politicisation of EU governance Leader: LUISS

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Co-funded by the European Union

This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Call HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01 – Grant agreement n°101061621

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