Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303440 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
LEQS Paper No. 157
Publisher: 
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), European Institute, London
Abstract: 
This article provides an assessment of the EU institutions' response to the coronavirus pandemic. It contends that it followed the new intergovernmental tendency to empower de novo bodies like the European Stability Mechanism, the European Investment Bank and the European Central Bank. The European Central Bank's early and unconstrained action structured European politics. Its pandemic emergency purchase programme ensured that euro area member states were able to maintain market access and lowered the financial attractiveness of the subsequently created instruments to tackle the corona crisis. The European Commission was relegated to the role of 'cheerleader of European solidarity'. It partially redeemed itself by creating a new temporary loan-based instrument to support national short-term work schemes and by proposing a large-scale recovery instrument termed 'Next Generation EU'.
Subjects: 
Coronavirus crisis
pandemic emergency politics
COVID-19
euro area
EU
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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