Dr. Peter Becker

Dr. Peter Becker


Research Division: EU/Europe
Senior Associate

peter.becker(at)swp-berlin.org

Areas of Expertise:

EU budget and finances, EU internal market, EU sectoral policies, European Union, Principles of European integration


SWP Publications (selection):

Peter Becker

A European Economic Policy in the Making

Success with Modest Means

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

doi:10.18449/2020RP13

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Peter Becker

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, July 2020, 8 Pages

doi:10.18449/2020C37

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Peter Becker

A New Budget for the EU

Negotiations on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021–2027

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

doi:10.18449/2019RP11

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Peter Becker

The Right Moment to Reform the EU Budget

SWP Comment 2017/C 08, March 2017, 7 Pages
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Peter Becker

Lost in Stagnation

The EU’s Next Multiannual Financial Framework (2014–2020) and the Power of the Status Quo

SWP Research Paper 2012/RP 14, October 2012, 22 Pages
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External Publications (selection):

Peter Becker

The reform of European cohesion policy or how to couple the streams successfully

in: Journal of European Integration, 2018, DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2018.1553964
Peter Becker

Solidarité et conditionalité: deux principles directeurs de la politique européene de cohesion

in: Revue Française de Finances Publiques, No. 141, Février 2018, p. 67-80.
Peter Becker

The next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and the Unity of EU budget

In-Depth Analysis on the request of the Committee on Budgets of the European Parliament, November 2017

in: europarl.europa.eu, November 2017
Peter Becker

Reforming the European Multiannual Financial Framework – Looking for a Policy Window in a Path-dependent Environment

in: Stefan Becker, Michael W. Bauer Alfredo de Feo (eds.): The New Politics of the European Union Budget, Nomos, Baden- Baden 2017, pp. 103-132
Peter Becker

The European Budget and the Principles of Solidarity and Added Value

in: The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs, 19.04.2012 (online)

In the Media/ »Point of View« (selection):

Peter Becker

Budgeting as the political creation of added value

in: ECA Journal No. 3, 2020.
Peter Becker

The MFF 2021-2027: a Compromise with Long-term Consequences

in: Brexit Research and Interchange on Differentiated Governance in Europe (BRIDGE), 19.11.2020

Media quotes (selection):

Clara Palma Hermann

Economistas alemanes ven en el acuerdo de la cumbre europea un «cambio de paradigma»

With qoutes by Peter Becker, in: naiz.eus, 22.07.2020

SWP Research Papers

Peter Becker
A European Economic Policy in the Making

Success with Modest Means

Oliver Geden, Felix Schenuit
Unconventional Mitigation

Carbon Dioxide Removal as a New Approach in EU Climate Policy