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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2106277
EU fiscal policy shifts: towards more integration?
Marin Mileusnic
Sažetak
This article sets out to empirically examine the salience of EU fiscal integration
processes between 2007 and 2022. By employing text-mining
and qualitative analysis, the previously generated discourse on fiscal
integration during and after the financial and sovereign debt crisis, several
EU regulatory overhauls, Brexit and the COVID-19 crisis has been
tracked. Particularly important have been the new counter-COVID-19
policies such as SURE and NGEU as these substantially impacted the
course of common fiscal integration. The assessment covered a body
of 160 documents including legal texts, peer reviewed articles, communications
and reports of the EU bodies and policy papers, and has relied
on the neo(neo)functionalism theory to identify shifts in fiscal integration.
The findings show that the discourse on fiscal integration gains
prominence with each economic and political crisis and that the shifts
can go in the direction of eithermore (upward) or less (downward) fiscal
integration, or involve enough (nil) integration.
Ključne riječi
EU fiscal integration; fiscal union; fiscal capacity; NGEU; NNF
Hrčak ID:
306625
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.4.2023.
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