Miró, JoanNatili, MarcelloSchelkle, Waltraud2024-02-232024-02-232023Miró J, Natili M, Schelkle W. Money makes the world go round: how much difference do recovery and resilience plans make to EU reform governance?. J Common Mark Stud. 2023. 18 p. DOI: 10.1111/jcms.135580021-9886http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59236Data de publicació electrònica: 15 de novembre del 2023The Next Generation EU (NGEU) package transformed European economic governance. This article examines the implications of this change in terms of EU polity formation and in terms of social policy content. It asks whether the temporary availability of large funds increases the leverage of the Commission in the European Semester and how this innovation affects sensitive policies. In the tradition of Stein Rokkan, the article advances a conception of the EU as a compound polity that needs to reconcile dispersed authority with second-order loyalty. We then contrast our theoretical expectations with traditional reform surveillance and experimentalist governance theories. The drafting of Recovery and Resilience Plans for Italy and Spain provides the empirical basis for assessing these expectations. The analysis shows a dual effect: adding fiscal capacity to the European Semester enhances the Commission's hierarchical power whilst the need to ensure member states' loyalty leaves room for national executives to insist on their priorities.application/pdfeng© 2023 The Authors. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies published by University Association for Contemporary European Studies and John Wiley & SonsLtd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13558fiscal governanceEuropean SemesterRecovery and Resilience FacilityNext GenerationEUsocial policyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess