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REXPO

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Residual executive power (REXPO). EU institutional balance and regulatory patter...
Residual executive power (REXPO). EU institutional balance and regulatory patterns after the Covid19 crisis 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,... 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 Commission’s executive functions, while moving away from the Community Method. Using a historical institutionalist lens, REXPO defines this increase in the Commission’s 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. ver más
15/09/2026
Hertie School
190K€
Perfil tecnológico estimado
Duración del proyecto: 29 meses Fecha Inicio: 2024-04-08
Fecha Fin: 2026-09-15

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo HORIZON EUROPE notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2024-04-08
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-01: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023
Cerrada hace 1 año
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 190K€
Líder del proyecto
HERTIE SCHOOL GEMMEINNUTZIGE GMBH No se ha especificado una descripción o un objeto social para esta compañía.
Perfil tecnológico TRL 4-5