PI of the DFG funded project EUMONEY

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​I am the Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project “Towards a post-pandemic fiscal union? Differentiated member state governance of EU money: the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (EUMONEY)”, financed for three years (2025-2028) by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and conducted at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at LMU Munich, Germany. Updates on the project will be published here.

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EUMONEY 

EUMONEY analyses the differentiated governance of European Union (EU) money, i.e. the institutions, actors, structures, and processes at the national level who decide on what EU money is spent, who perform the daily management of EU money, and who control this money against misuse. As European taxpayers’ money, EU money is politically salient: the EU is not a state, it is not allowed to unconditionally transfer money to the member states, and some countries strongly oppose the development of a European transfer union.

EUMONEY considers the largest transfer of European money in the history of the EU, namely the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) as part of the COVID-19 recovery fund. It sheds light on the member state differentiated governance of the RRF money and has three aims:

1) to describe the constitutive elements of the differentiated governance of the RRF money to create governance typologies;

2) to understand to what extent member states developed a similar governance (institutional isomorphism) of the RRF money;

3) to explain why member states set up a differentiated governance of the RRF money.

 

Updates on the project will be published here.

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