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14 Wroclaw Rev. L. Admin. & Econ. 1 (2024)

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    sciendo                                          Wroclaw Review
                                                          ofLaw, Administration & Economics
                                                                     Vol 14:1, 2024
                                                           DOI: 10.2478/wrlae-2024-0001


THE   NEW NORMAL? THE EUROPEAN UNION'S TEMPORARY
                   FRAMEWORKS FOR STATE AID


                          JAKUB   KOCIUBISKI-


                                 KEYWORDS

     State aid, temporary framework, crisis aid, disaster aid, economic disturbance


                                 ABSTRACT

     It is widely agreed that the global economy has entered a phase of heightened
uncertainty. Since all downturns and slowdowns involve low aggregate demand,
the authorities typically step in by increasing their own spending to protect
businesses and jobs. During the Covid pandemic the European Union has witnessed
an unprecedented level of State aid measures, under the hastily adopted dedicated
temporary framework.  Temporary  rules have also been adopted to facilitate State
aid supporting companies affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which are
still in force today (March 2023). The common pattern of crisis responses in turn
allows for a more general, non-event-specific, assessment of State aid measures
taken to reduce economic disturbances.
     Sufficient time has now passed for an attempt to take stock of these efforts.
This paper therefore seeks to assess State aid measures designed to remedy serious
economic  disruptions, identify their weak points and recommend improvements.
The analysis, preceded by a succinct description of the European Union's State aid
toolbox for crisis aid, will focus on the previously identified potential problem
areas: How  to determine whether an aid measure is indeed capable, in itself, of

*  Jakub Kociubiiski LLM, PhD, DSc (Dr hab. prof. UWr), Faculty of Law, Administration and
   Economics, University of Wroclaw, Poland [jakub.kociubinski@uwr.edu.pl]. ORCID: 0000-
   0002-4391-7439. This publication has been supported by National Science Centre, Poland
   (Narodowe Centrum Nauki) under the project no. 2021/43/B/HS5/00548. For the purpose of
   Open  Access, the author has applied a CC-BY public copyright licence to any Author
   Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission.
© 2024 Jakub Kociubiiski, published by Sciendo. |   This work is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License.


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