The Path-Breaking Potential of the Recovery and Resilience Facility: An Analysis of the Shifts in EU’s Distributional Policy Mode with Insights from Romania’s Experience

In May 2020, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) was presented as a unique instrument, due to its ambition, form, and the mechanisms with which it is equipped. Both the EU institutions and the epistemic and administrative communities in the field of European affairs saw it as a path-breaking...

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Published in:Romanian journal of European affairs 2024-06, Vol.24 (1), p.46-66
Main Author: Toderas, Nicolae
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ambition
Coordination
Critical path
Dependency
Economy
eu’s cohesion policy
eu’s distributional policy mode
Governance
Hypotheses
Institutionalism
Macroeconomics
new institutionalism
Pandemics
Path dependence
Politics / Political Sciences
Public Administration
Public Finances
Recovery
recovery and resilience facility
Resilience
Supranational / Global Economy
the european semester
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Summary:In May 2020, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) was presented as a unique instrument, due to its ambition, form, and the mechanisms with which it is equipped. Both the EU institutions and the epistemic and administrative communities in the field of European affairs saw it as a path-breaking instrument in the implementation of EU policies. This article analyses this hypothesis, and whether the RRF has the potential to generate a new path dependency in the EU’s distributional policy mode. It looks at the elements of the EU’s coordination mechanism through the RRF, as well as the aspects that set it apart from other EU policies, especially the EU Cohesion Policy. Also, primary evidence relating to Romania’s experience in drafting the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, and in implementing it, is presented and discussed from the perspective of the adjustments required by the specific approach of the RRF.
ISSN:1582-8271
1841-4273