Genschel, PhilippPhilippGenschelJachtenfuchs, MarkusMarkusJachtenfuchs2023-09-052023-09-052021-02-111350-1763https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/7115https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/2436Postfunctionalism posits a tradeoff between the functional scale of governance and the territorial scope of community: functional scale is large and transnational for efficiency reasons; community is small-scale and (sub-)national for reasons of social trust and collective identification. COVID-19 has turned this tradeoff upside down: it has shrunk functional scale to the (sub-)national level in the name of security, while lifting expectations of community to the grand transnational scale in the name of solidarity. This reversal of scales has resulted in a rapid rebordering of the Single Market and the Schengen area on the one hand, and a significant debordering of fiscal risk and burden sharing on the other. We reconstruct the evolution of this double-movement from January to August 2020, contrast it to historical trends in the scale-community tradeoff of European integration, and discuss implications for postfunctionalist theory.enCC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/BordersCOVID-19-PandemicEuropean Unionpostfunctionalismsolidarity300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, SoziologieText::Zeitschrift::Wissenschaftlicher Artikel10.26092/elib/2436urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib71153