制定中的欧洲经济政策（英文）

SWP Research Paper Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik German Institute for International and Security Affairs Peter Becker A European Economic Policy in the Making Success with Modest Means SWP Research Paper 13 October 2020, Berlin Abstract ∎ Although the roots of the European Union lie in economic integration, the EU’s economic policy competences and possibilities are narrowly limited in European primary law. Nevertheless, the influence of the EU, and in particular the European Commission, on economic policies of the member states is clearly visible and tangible. ∎ The focus of European economic policy is on the coordination of member state policies by the European Commission. It uses strategic planning in-struments such as 10-year strategies, guidelines, and reform recommen-dations, which it bundles within the European Semester. ∎ European economic policy-makers are actually faced with the task of limiting the acute socio-economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on the one hand, and finding answers to the structural challenges posed by globalisation, digitisation, and climate change on the other. A com-mon European economic policy is becoming increasingly necessary, and expectations are growing. ∎ The European Commission is trying to combine these two tasks – the stimulation of the European economy and the sustainable transformation of national economies – with the new European recovery fund “Next Generation EU”. The European Green Deal will become the guiding prin-ciple for both economic policy coordination and economic policy at the national level. ∎ This reorientation of European economic policy towards sustainable and decarbonised growth will promote the Europeanisation and, in the long term, the unitarisation of national economic policies. SWP Research Paper Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik German Institute for International and Security Affairs Peter Becker A European Economic Policy in the Making Success with Modest Means SWP Research Paper 13 October 2020, Berlin All rights reserved. © Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 2020 SWP Research Papers are peer reviewed by senior researchers and the execu-tive board of the Institute. They are also subject to fact-checking and copy-editing. For further information on our quality control pro-cedures, please visit the SWP website: https:// www.swp-berlin.org/en/ about-swp/quality-management-for-swp-publications/. SWP Research Papers reflect the views of the author(s). SWP Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik German Institute for International and Security Affairs Ludwigkirchplatz 3–4 10719 Berlin Germany Phone +49 30 880 07-0 Fax +49 30 880 07-200 www.swp-berlin.org swp@swp-berlin.org ISSN 1863-1053 doi: 10.18449/2020RP13 (English version of SWP-Studie 16/2020) Table of Contents 5 Issues and Conclusions 7 The Foundations of European Economic Policy 7 The European economic constitution: The leitmotif of the social market economy 8 The limits of European primary law