11:00 - 13:15
Friday-Panel
Chair/s:
Aleksandra Khokhlova
Discussant/s:
Steffen Hurka
Meeting Room K

Maurits Meijers, Björn Bremer, Theresa Kuhn, Francesco Nicoli
EU Solidarity and Risk-Sharing in the COVID-19 Crisis. Results of a conjoint experiment in five countries

Roman Senninger
Do Citizens Reward Place-Based Policy? Evidence from the European Union

Matilde Ceron
EU economic governance, Covid-19 and national budgetary biases in times of crisis within the Eurozone: NGEU comes to the rescue?

 
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EU Solidarity and Risk-Sharing in the COVID-19 Crisis. Results of a conjoint experiment in five countries
Maurits Meijers 1, Björn Bremer 2, Theresa Kuhn 3, Francesco Nicoli 3, 4
1 Radboud University Nijmegen
2 Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG)
3 University of Amsterdam
4 Ghent University

In July 2020, the European Council agreed on a historic €750 billion recovery plan to tackle the unprecedented public health and economic crisis following the global COVID-19 pandemic. While the leaders of some member states were concerned about moral hazard and a potential Eurosceptic backlash of their voters, we actually know little about whether European citizens support European reforms to tackle this crisis and under which conditions such joint responses are perceived as legitimate. To answer this question, we conducted a conjoint experiment on public support for European solidarity and risk-sharing in the fight against the coronavirus in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. This experiment enables us to analyse to what extent public support is sensitive to key dimensions of the Eu recovery fund, such as European debt emission and repayment mechanisms, and how support is structured within and across countries.

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