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Schlagwörter:
Covid-19, EU institutions, EU policies, Politics and economics, Next Generation EU, Recovery and Resilience Facility, recovery fund, Euroscepticism
Zusammenfassung:
Concerns about a populist, Eurosceptic backlash have long been an obstacle to the fiscal integration of the EU. This column uses a new survey fielded in five countries – France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain – to measure the validity of those concerns. The results suggest that support for a joint European fiscal instrument is high; that the pandemic recovery plan agreed under ‘Next Generation EU’ is a well-tailored instrument; and that making the recovery fund permanent would provide a path to political sustainability and garner widespread support among European citizens.
