REGROUP: Rebuilding Governance and Resilience Out of the Pandemic
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, the European Union had faced a decade characterised by multiple crises, such as the financial and Eurozone crisis, Brexit, and the migrant and climate crisis. This has highlighted the limits and weaknesses of the European Union and the multi-level governance system in terms of emergency politics, where decision-making is shared across various levels of government – from local to national to supranational – its role in internal and global cooperation, and the effectiveness and fairness of democratic policy-making.
To be better prepared for future crises, it is important to reflect on how to move forward and rethink our public policies and governance systems. What lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic should we take with us in tackling post-pandemic challenges? Has the Covid-19 pandemic opened a window of opportunity for institutional and policy change?
Impact
The Horizon Europe-funded project REGROUP (Rebuilding governance and resilience out of the pandemic) aims to provide the European Union with a body of actionable advice on how to rebuild post-pandemic governance and public policies in an effective and democratic way. These policy-prescriptive goals are in turn based on two additional and preliminary objectives: analysing the socio-political consequences of Covid-19, and reflecting on the legal and normative implications of the pandemic.
Pier Domenico Tortola (University of Groningen): “REGROUP studies, in a comprehensive, trans-disciplinary, and participatory way, how Covid-19 has shaped our politics and societies, and produces actionable advice for policy-makers on how to make European institutions resilient to future systemic risks.”
More info: https://regroup-horizon.eu/
