EU Policymaking at a Crossroads

Edited by Sybille Münch, Professor of Political Science, Stiftung Universität Hildesheim and Visiting Professor, Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University, Lüneburg and Hubert Heinelt, Professor for Public Administration, Public Policy and Urban Research, Institute for Political Science, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Contents:

PART I THE NEGOTIATIONS ABOUT THE
MULTIANNUAL FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK
2021–2027 AND THEIR CONTEXT
1 The EU at a crossroads. Negotiations about the
Multiannual Financial Framework 2021–2027:
Introduction to the book 2
Hubert Heinelt and Sybille Münch
2 The negotiations about the Multiannual Financial
Framework 2021–2027: What happened when with what result? 30
Peter Becker
3 A decisive moment of governing: budgeting (in) the time of crisis 56
Marlon Barbehön
4 The Euro crisis: the battle of ideas how to address it– and
its effects on European integration 75
Clément Fontan and Antoine de Cabanes

PART II POLICY CHANGES
5 The CAP post-2020 reform and the EU budget process 96
Peter H. Feindt, Pascal Grohmann and Astrid Häger
6 The 2021 reform of EU cohesion policy in context of the
negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework 123
Wolfgang Petzold
7 Sustainabilising Europe in times of crisis? The
meta-policy role of the European Green Deal in the
context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the negotiations
on the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework 145
Basil Bornemann
8 The Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021–2027 and
the struggle over ideas about migration and border management 173
Sybille Münch
9 EU research, technological development and innovation policy 203
Matthias Weber, Peter Biegelbauer, Michael Dinges and
Katja Lamprecht

PART III DO WE HAVE TO RECONSIDER THEORIES
OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION?
10 Consensus politics and EU disequilibrium: the German
Council Presidency 2021 and the rule of law mechanism 234
Uwe Puetter
11 What do the negotiations about the Multiannual
Financial Framework 2021–2027 mean for theories of
European integration? Reflections from an actor-centred
constructivist perspective 252
Sabine Saurugger

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