The Social and Territorial Dimension of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Innovative Solutions and its Constraints
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One of the most important financial instruments for recovery from the pandemic crisis is the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RFF), which replaces austerity-oriented conditionality introducing a demand-driven and results-oriented framework, with access to support conditional on forward-looking reforms and investment plans. All this contributes to the renewal of European economic governance, which in the post-pandemic period relies heavily on the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) and the general objectives of the RFF. Based on an analysis of the relevant literature, EU documents and databases, the study argues that the interconnection of the EPSR and RRF governance architectures has created an opportunity to strengthen the socialisation and territorialisation of European economic governance, at the same time the effectiveness of implementation is influenced by several factors, above all, the diversity of social policy and regional development practices represented by Member States, the differing domestic priorities of recovery strategies, and the unclear relationship between the RFF and cohesion policy.
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