New Frontiers of EU Funding Law, Policy, Politics

Sovereign debt, migration, and the pandemic were some of the most significant catalysts for innovation in EU funding since 2020, and these often-controversial innovations have given rise to complex legal issues. New Frontiers of EU Funding: Law, Policy, Politics analyzes EU funding in the broader context of the EU budget and funding law and practice to make sense of the rapidly shifting landscape.

Bringing together a diverse team of scholars and practitioners, the chapters in this volume provide a detailed overview and evaluation of three new frontiers of EU funding. The first considers why and how innovations in EU funding have increasingly been driven 'off-budget.' The second is centered around rule of law concerns: whether the EU has overstepped a normative frontier, or whether it should rather be viewed as having made astute and imaginative use of available legal pathways in creating new EU funding streams. The third frontier considers whether and how new EU funding has entered and fundamentally reshaped the terrain of substantive EU law and policy.

Policy-oriented and reflective, this book makes the case for legal scholars to pay increasing attention to the EU budget in a wider context and is a valuable resource for legal scholars and practitioners seeking to understand the new drivers and mechanisms of EU funding.

Claire Kilpatrick, Professor of Law, European University Institute,Joanne Scott, Professor of European Law, European University Institute

Claire Kilpatrick is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute. Before coming to the EUI in 2011, she worked at LSE, Cambridge University, Queen Mary University of London, and Bristol University. Her research interests lie mainly in the law and policy construction of Social Europe, especially the EU's roles. tute. Before coming to the EUI in 2011, she worked at LSE, Cambridge University, Queen Mary University of London, and Bristol University. Her research interests lie mainly in the law and policy construction of Social Europe, especially the EU's roles.


Joanne Scott is Professor of European Law and Co-Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute. She is an Honorary Professor at University College London, Faculty of Laws, where she taught from 2005 to 2017. Before that she taught at the University of Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London, and the University of Kent. Her research interests lie in the areas of environmental law and climate change law, EU extraterritoriality, new modes of EU governance, and the relationships between different legal orders.

1. New Frontiers of European Union Funding, Claire Kilpatrick and Joanne Scott2. The European Union's Public Finances in Times of Crisis: Fragmentation, Innovation, and Consolidation, Richard Crowe3. The Politics of European Union Funding: Time for Treaty Change?, Johannes Lindner and Thu Nguyen4. (Un)Constitutional Conditions: A European Perspective, Viorica Vita5. The Emergence of New Own Resources to Strengthen the EU Budget and Achieve Green Policy Objectives: A Win-win or a Difficult Fit?, Ioanna Hadjiyianni6. Accountable National Governance of European Union Funds, Emilia Korkea-aho