The Recovery and Resilience plan approved by the European Council of 17-21 July 2020, known as the Next Generation EU, introduced a decision of extraordinary importance in the recent history of European integration. The aforementioned importance is both quantitative, due to the total amount of money involved in the plan, and qualitative, since it gave the Commission the power to raise up to 750 billion euros on international markets through the issuance of European debt securities. It is precisely this last feature of the plan that has led many academics, opinion leaders and high-profile institutional figures to speak of a “Hamiltonian moment” for Europe, with reference to the process of financial and fiscal integration at the origin of the US federal experience. Building on a well-established comparative scholarship on federalism, with a particular focus on the literature that contrasts the US case with the European one, this essay offers a diachronic comparison between both the fiscal and financial instruments adopted by the American patriots to revive the fortunes of the Republic in the midst of the War of Independence and the European measures to counter the economic shock following the Covid-19 pandemic. By means of a diachronic comparison, this essay will test the validity of the historical analogy that ascribes the title “Hamiltonian moment” to the current European situation. To this end, the essay adopts an interdisciplinary approach that combines the heuristic tools of institutional history with a detailed analysis of the European legal framework.

Il Piano per la Ripresa e la Resilienza approvato dal Consiglio europeo del 17-21 luglio 2020, e denominato Next Generation EU, rappresenta una decisione di straordinaria rilevanza nella storia recente dell’integrazione europea: una rilevanza non solo quantitativa, per il complessivo valore del piano, ma anche qualitativa, per la decisione di autorizzare la Commissione a reperire ben 750 miliardi di euro sui mercati internazionali, attraverso l’emissione di titoli di debito europei. È proprio quest’ultima caratteristica del piano ad aver portato molti studiosi, opinionisti e personalità di alto profilo istituzionale a parlare di un “momento hamiltoniano” dell’Europa, con riferimento al processo di integrazione finanziaria e fiscale alle origini dell’esperienza federale statunitense. Prendendo spunto dalla letteratura comparata sui federalismi, con una particolare attenzione agli studi che mettono a confronto il caso statunitense con quello europeo, il presente saggio propone una comparazione diacronica tra le misure finanziarie e fiscali adottate dai patrioti americani per risollevare le sorti della Repubblica nel mezzo della Guerra d’Indipendenza, e le misure europee di contrasto allo shock economico seguito alla pandemia di Covid-19, allo scopo di saggiare la bontà dell’analogia storica che attribuisce alla presente congiuntura europea il titolo di “momento hamiltoniano”. A tal fine, il saggio adotta un approccio interdisciplinare che unisce gli strumenti euristici della storia delle istituzioni a una puntuale analisi del quadro giuridico europeo.

Bon, C., Santini, A., Un momento hamiltoniano? Riflessione interdisciplinare comparata tra Stati Uniti e Unione europea sul problema del debito, <<INSTITUTA>>, 2023; (1): 5-26 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/256614]

Un momento hamiltoniano? Riflessione interdisciplinare comparata tra Stati Uniti e Unione europea sul problema del debito

Bon, Cristina
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Santini, Andrea
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2023

Abstract

The Recovery and Resilience plan approved by the European Council of 17-21 July 2020, known as the Next Generation EU, introduced a decision of extraordinary importance in the recent history of European integration. The aforementioned importance is both quantitative, due to the total amount of money involved in the plan, and qualitative, since it gave the Commission the power to raise up to 750 billion euros on international markets through the issuance of European debt securities. It is precisely this last feature of the plan that has led many academics, opinion leaders and high-profile institutional figures to speak of a “Hamiltonian moment” for Europe, with reference to the process of financial and fiscal integration at the origin of the US federal experience. Building on a well-established comparative scholarship on federalism, with a particular focus on the literature that contrasts the US case with the European one, this essay offers a diachronic comparison between both the fiscal and financial instruments adopted by the American patriots to revive the fortunes of the Republic in the midst of the War of Independence and the European measures to counter the economic shock following the Covid-19 pandemic. By means of a diachronic comparison, this essay will test the validity of the historical analogy that ascribes the title “Hamiltonian moment” to the current European situation. To this end, the essay adopts an interdisciplinary approach that combines the heuristic tools of institutional history with a detailed analysis of the European legal framework.
2023
Italiano
Bon, C., Santini, A., Un momento hamiltoniano? Riflessione interdisciplinare comparata tra Stati Uniti e Unione europea sul problema del debito, <<INSTITUTA>>, 2023; (1): 5-26 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/256614]
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