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Dr. Peter Becker

Research Division:

EU/Europe Senior Associate

peter.becker@swp-berlin.org

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Areas of Expertise

EU budget and finances
EU internal market
EU regional policy
EU sectoral policies
Economic Governance
Principles of European integration

Focus

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

Publications (PDF) | 460 KB

SWP Publications

- Peter Becker
- Barbara Lippert
Acceding Countries’ Gradual Integration into the EU Single Market
- German
Prerequisites, Opportunities and Hurdles

SWP Comment 2024/C 42, 16.09.2024, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2024C42
- Peter Becker
The EU on the Way to a Fiscal Union?
in:
- Günther Maihold
- Stefan Mair
- Melanie Müller
- Judith Vorrath
- Christian Wagner (eds.)
German Foreign Policy in Transition
- German
Contribution to a Research Paper 2021/RP 10, 13.12.2021, 125 Pages, pp. 25–28
- Peter Becker
A European Economic Policy in the Making
- German
Success with Modest Means

SWP Research Paper 2020/RP 13, 29.10.2020, 31 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020RP13
- Peter Becker
The EU Budget As an Opportunity in the Crisis
- German
The EU Commission Proposal for a New Financial Framework and a Reconstruction Fund

SWP Comment 2020/C 37, 07.07.2020, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C37
- Peter Becker
A New Budget for the EU
- German
Negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021–2027

SWP Research Paper 2019/RP 11, 26.08.2019, 34 Pages

doi:10.18449/2019RP11

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External publications

- Peter Becker
Agreeing on the European COVID-19 budget package – multiple streams in the European Union

in: Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 1–17, January 2025

doi:10.1080/14782804.2024.2445294
- Peter Becker
The Budget of the European Union and German European Policy

Springer Nature, Wiesbaden 2024

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-39473-8
- Peter Becker
Conditionality as an Instrument of European Governance – Cases, Characteristics and Types

in: JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, January 2024

doi:10.1111/jcms.13580
- Peter Becker
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
- Peter Becker
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
- Peter Becker
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 2022

doi: 10.1080/13501763.2022.2085770

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