Dr. Peter Becker
EU/Europe Senior Associate
Areas of Expertise
- EU budget and finances
- EU internal market
- EU regional policy
- EU sectoral policies
- Economic Governance
- Principles of European integration
EU cohesion policy and structural fund, social Europe, German EU policy
Short Curriculum vitae
Since 2004 at the SWP
2015/16 Secondment to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy; Management and Planning Department
1998-2004 Officer and Deputy Head of Division in the European Department of the Thuringian State Chancellery and previously in the Thuringian Ministry of Justice and European Affairs, Erfurt
1995-1998 Researcher at the Institute for European Politics, Bonn
1993-1995 Researcher at the Institute for European Integration Studies, Bonn
SWP Publications
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Strengthening Europe’s Defence Capabilities through Clear Tasks and Objectives
To Secure Additional Funding, the EU Must First Define Its Security Priorities
SWP Comment 2025/C 38, 19.08.2025, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2025C38
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Acceding Countries’ Gradual Integration into the EU Single Market
Prerequisites, Opportunities and Hurdles
SWP Comment 2024/C 42, 16.09.2024, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C42
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The EU on the Way to a Fiscal Union?
in: German Foreign Policy in TransitionContribution to a Research Paper 2021/RP 10, 13.12.2021, 125 Pages, pp. 25–28
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A European Economic Policy in the Making
Success with Modest Means
SWP Research Paper 2020/RP 13, 29.10.2020, 31 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2020RP13
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The EU Budget As an Opportunity in the Crisis
The EU Commission Proposal for a New Financial Framework and a Reconstruction Fund
SWP Comment 2020/C 37, 07.07.2020, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2020C37
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A New Budget for the EU
Negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021–2027
SWP Research Paper 2019/RP 11, 26.08.2019, 34 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2019RP11
External publications
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Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union
in: Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 1–17, January 2025doi:10.1080/14782804.2024.2445294
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The Budget of the European Union and German European Policy
Springer Nature, Wiesbaden 2024doi:10.1007/978-3-658-39473-8
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Conditionality as an Instrument of European Governance – Cases, Characteristics and Types
in: JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, January 2024doi:10.1111/jcms.13580
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The negotiations about the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027: what happened when with what result?
in: Sybille Münch and Hubert Heinelt (eds): EU Policymaking at a Crossroads, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham 2022, pp. 30-54.doi:10.4337/9781788977654.00009
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Germany’s U-turn over the EU’s recovery funds was further evidence of its role as Europe’s ‘status quo power’
in: LSE Europe Blog, 01.08.2022 -
Germany as the European Union’s status quo power? Continuity and change in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic
Journal of European Public Policy, June 2022doi: 10.1080/13501763.2022.2085770