Managing State Aid in a Time of Crisis: Commission Crisis Communications and the Financial Sector Bailout

Doleys, Thomas

doi:10.1080/07036337.2012.707360

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“…The outcome was impressive. Aside from the crisis measures themselves, the Commission maintained total aid to industry at around pre-crisis level (around 0.5 per cent of GDP) (Doleys 2012). 'This supports the contention that state aid generally remained under control despite the economic crisis' (Aydin and Thomas 2012: 541).…”

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“…The Commission was initially accommodating and was gradually able to reassert itself. It had been aware of the risk involved in dealing with the aid in a heavy-handed, dogmatic manner and decided to respond pragmatically in the first instance, by providing temporary authorisation to all notified aid (ibid: 268) and later by crafting a special crisis regime (based on the soft law 'crisis communications') (Doleys 2012). If the Commission had not acted in this way it is likely that '…member states would have stopped complying with the State aid rules…' (Botta 2016: 268).…”

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Research Handbook on European State Aid Law

Hancher¹,

López²

2021

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This chapter reviews the political science research on European Union (EU) State aid policy. The literature focuses primarily on the evolution of State aid control and on the institutions and actors who play a role in the policy. Resting on Treaty provisions that were little used in the first decades of the European Community, the Commission's incremental soft law approach, supportive jurisprudence from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), and the involvement private complainants have helped bring together Commission and Member State interests in support of State aid control. The Commission's handling of the financial crisis, a test for the more mature regime, has been largely judged a success. Over time policy initiatives have helped to reduce and target national subsidies, and the enforcement of and compliance with the Treaty provisions have improved dramatically since the late 1980s. The political dimension of the policy seems to have less resonance these days, as there are fewer high-profile controversial cases than in the past, but there are still interesting questions to be addressed about the way in which competition, regional, environmental, cultural and industrial policies are balanced against each other in the design and application of the EU-level policy and decision-making, and what the implications of UK's departure from the EU and the emergence of populist governments and leaders in the Member States might mean for State aid control.

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Section: Iiiii Patterns Of Compliance With Eu State Aid Rulesmentioning

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Research Handbook on European State Aid Law

Hancher¹,

López²

2021

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“…This decision-making occasion highlighted how the Commission dealt with the initial pressure from MSs that were threatening to apply national measures. It also shows how the Commission delayed in proposing common legislation until the governments themselves asked for its intervention to guard against other MSs' deleterious behaviour (see Doleys 2012).…”

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Explaining the European commission’s strategies in times of crisis

Hammargård

Olsson

2019

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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Despite the growing debate over the European Commission's (hereafter, Commission) role in crises, there are few systematic explanations for the variety of actions undertaken by the Commission in times of crisis. This article outlines a heuristic device to explain the Commission's actions during crises, based on the variables 'Commission mandate' and 'member state engagement'. To this end, it examines two crisis events that affected two strategically important policy areas for European Union integration: the early stages of the financial crisis that began in 2008 and the migration following the 2011 Arab Spring. Based on analysis of these cases, this study identifies four strategies applied by the Commission: doer, follower, cooperator and recycler. Our study concludes that member state engagement and Commission mandate are important variables in explaining under which circumstances these strategies are used by the Commission.

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“…It was not for nothing that many newspapers reported in 2008 and 2009 that "cash is king." 9See Werner and Maier (2009), De Sa (2009), and Doleys (2012).…”

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Power transition and the regulatory state in large emerging markets: Norm‐breaking after the global financial crisis

Evenett

2020

Regulation & Governance

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I examine the ways in which the global financial crisis that began in 2007, and whose effects arguably condition policymaking to the present day, affected the ongoing global power transition as manifested by the unilateral decisions undertaken by official agencies comprising national regulatory states. The theory of that power transition articulated in the overview paper of this Special Issue is reinterpreted to take into account the circumstances of that crisis. Empirical evidence on the propensity to discriminate against foreign commercial interests by the BRICS, Turkey, the European Union, and the United States during the years 2008 to 2017 at, and behind, the border is employed to identify a group of six potential rule-shapers and two possible sham rule-takers.

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Managing State Aid in a Time of Crisis: Commission Crisis Communications and the Financial Sector Bailout

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Research Handbook on European State Aid Law

Research Handbook on European State Aid Law

Explaining the European commission’s strategies in times of crisis

Power transition and the regulatory state in large emerging markets: Norm‐breaking after the global financial crisis

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