V Dealing with Crises? Leadership and Market

Re-regulating the European high-tech capitalism? The EU’s digitalization strategy at a turning point after the COVID-19 pandemic

Joscha Abels
Hans-Jürgen Bieling
Sarrah Kassem

Abstract

The European Union (EU) channeled a considerable amount of funds to digitalization and new technologies to counter the economic effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper examines to what extent these measures represent a turning point in European economic governance and which structural conditions contribute to this development. From a theoretical perspective, it builds on regulation theory, extended by a neo-Gramscian crisis conception; and characterizes recent developments as “second-order change”, ...

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