Towards a European Partnership Policy (EPP) with the South and the East: Fostering Dynamics, Fighting Root Causes of Migration

Aiginger, Karl; Handler, Heinz

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“…1 in the Appendix. 11 See for example Rodrik (2004), Aiginger (2007Aiginger ( , 2014Aiginger ( , 2017Aiginger ( , 2019a A new wave of empirical work has paid much closer attention to questions of causal inference. These studies, using contemporary econometric methods, have rapidly expanded our knowledge on the richness and complexity of the effects of industrial policy.…”

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Rebirth of Industrial Policy and an Agenda for the Twenty-First Century

Aiginger

Rodrik²

2020

J Ind Compet Trade

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After a period of decline in interest and premature predictions of demise, industrial policy is back on the scene. A variety of trends have contributed to the renewed interest. In the developing world, there has been a pushback against the market-fundamentalist approach, typically associated with the Washington Consensus. Even when growth rates have been high, economies in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America have experienced unsatisfactory rates of productive transformation and shortfalls in generating quality jobs in manufacturing or modern services. This has created a demand for proactive government policies to diversify and upgrade economies beyond simply freeing up markets. In the advanced economies, generalized labor market malaise and the lingering effects of the financial crisis have produced similar effects. Low growth dynamics occurred especially in the euro zone, as countries with trade and budget double deficits with a common currency struggled to come out of the crisis. The continuing decline in the employment shares of manufacturing in the USA and Western European countries and the increasing competitive threat posed by China on world markets have pushed in the same direction. 1 Interest in 2 Warren (2019) and Rubio (2019). 3 Bofinger (2019), Altmaier (2019). 4 See the Alstrom-Siemens case, in which the firms argued to need a merger for remaining competitive with Chinese rail equipment. The merger was rejected by the EU Commission in spring 2019. A Franco-German Manifesto for a European Industry Policy for the twenty-first century see BMWI (2019). 5 Rodrik (2016).

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Section: The Goals and The Content Of This Special Issuementioning

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Rebirth of Industrial Policy and an Agenda for the Twenty-First Century

Aiginger

Rodrik²

2020

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“…This is not easy since diversity is a strength of Europe and the EU is still a community of independent states. But at least the majority of young F: Europe has to build strong partnerships with neighbors in the East and the South (Aiginger, 2017(Aiginger, , 2018. Even if we argue that the share of Europe in GNI, exports and manufacturing is larger than perceived, it will shrink for a given geographical size, due to lower dynamics (which is understandable since other countries have to catch up and European population is ageing).…”

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Europe Dwarfed by Media and Low Self-confidence

Aiginger¹

2020

JEPF

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This article rejects the dominant assertion that the world will become bipolar, with the sole remaining superpower USA as the retreating pole and China as the upcoming power on the road to leading in the new world order. We counter that forecasters should not forget Europe. In its geographical borders, it is currently leading in several quantitative and qualitative dimensions such as exports, quality manufacturing, life quality, and life expectancy. If the EU joins forces with countries already affiliated or looking for closer ties, and acts in a more coordinated manner across its members, it can be a partner of the US and China on a level playing field. This fact is currently ignored by international media and analysts. The article ventures to carve out some policy changes, which could increase Europe’s leverage. The new world order will not arise in a linear way and new middle powers will exist alongside the strongest actors: China, Europe, and the US.

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“…The latter mechanism is to some degree used by the fiscal compacts and the European semester. Incidentally, such a mechanism was the base for successfully committing 190 countries to adopt the Paris Climate Agreement: the goals were jointly defined (and recommended by scientists), each country is obliged to devise a strategy, which is then monitored by a predefined international process (see Aiginger 2017Aiginger , 2018.…”

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European Identity Politics

Aiginger

Handler²

2020

RAE

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Social and political sciences use the term ‘identity’ in describing a wide range of phenomena, whether these be personal explanations of self-understanding, descriptions of common interests or the shared experiences of a larger group. It has been used in the recent analyses of countries or larger communities, but also in the historical studies of very different societies in developing or industrialized countries. To make the concept more operational and open to empirical research, we dichotomize it into an inclusive versus an exclusive type. This enables us to carve out the different policy conclusions associated with each type. We then apply the concepts for analysing the emergence of European identity over the past decades, as well as its limits and recent headwinds. We present survey data on national and supranational identity and country differences concerning trust in national and European institutions. As a counterstrategy to populism and the exclusive type of identity, political observers, from scientists to members of the media, are split into suggesting either a "cordon sanitaire” to discourage voting for such ideas versus an embracement strategy by including their representatives into government, thereby controlling them or revealing their incompetence. This paper, in contrast, ventures a proactive strategy of four steps to localize the root causes of the success of populism, offering an inclusive vision for the long run, policy instruments for economic improvements and a new narrative. These concepts are linked to the strategy of the European Commission of a Green Deal and a Social Europe "striving for more”, which acts as a program to strengthen the inclusive European identity and pre-empt the renationalization requested by the exclusive type. It is much too early to analyse the COVID-19 crisis under the proposed dichotomization and the new narrative. However, the differences in the initial reactions of countries to the emerging pandemic, bashing foreign sources for its creation and misusing the crisis for a restoration of autocratic leadership on the one hand and looking for solidarity on the national as well as international level on the other, may later be attributed to the concepts of exclusion versus inclusion.

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Towards a European Partnership Policy (EPP) with the South and the East: Fostering Dynamics, Fighting Root Causes of Migration

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Rebirth of Industrial Policy and an Agenda for the Twenty-First Century

Rebirth of Industrial Policy and an Agenda for the Twenty-First Century

Europe Dwarfed by Media and Low Self-confidence

European Identity Politics

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