The Recovery and Resilience Dialogues: Cheap Talk or Effective Oversight?

IF 2.5 3区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics and Governance Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI:10.17645/pag.v11i4.7344

Edoardo Bressanelli, Nicola Chelotti, Matteo Nebbiai

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The recovery and resilience dialogues were introduced by the regulation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, and the first of such dialogues took place in May 2021. The European Parliament invites the Commission, approximately every two months, to exchange views on matters relating to the national recovery and resilience plans and progress in their implementation. Through an analysis of an original dataset composed of the questions asked by the MEPs in the 10 dialogues held between May 2021 and April 2023, this article provides a systematic empirical assessment of the European Parliament’s capacity to hold the Commission accountable. Drawing on the literature on the economic and monetary dialogues and adapting the operationalisation of key variables to the new instrument, this article shows that the recovery and resilience dialogues are an effective instrument for information exchange and debate, but they serve as a weak instrument of political accountability. Additionally, it casts new light on significant differences between MEPs: South and East European members are considerably more active than members from Northern Europe. At the same time, parliamentarians only occasionally ask questions targeting other member states.

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恢复与复原对话：廉价谈话还是有效监督？

恢复和复原力对话由恢复和复原力基金条例引入，第一次对话于 2021 年 5 月举行。欧洲议会约每两个月邀请欧盟委员会就与国家恢复和复原力计划及其实施进展有关的事项交换意见。本文通过分析由欧洲议会议员在 2021 年 5 月至 2023 年 4 月期间举行的 10 次对话中提出的问题组成的原始数据集，对欧洲议会向欧盟委员会问责的能力进行了系统的实证评估。本文借鉴了有关经济和货币对话的文献，并根据新工具调整了关键变量的操作方法，结果表明，恢复和复原力对话是信息交流和辩论的有效工具，但在政治问责方面却作用微弱。此外，文章还揭示了欧洲议会议员之间的显著差异：南欧和东欧议员要比北欧议员积极得多。同时，议员们只是偶尔提出针对其他成员国的问题。

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