How To Achieve A Better Budget For The European Union

Author : Daniel Gros
Publisher : CEPS
ISBN 13 : 9290797835
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Achieve a Better Budget for the European Union? written by Daniel Gros and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2008 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades the EU has widened and deepened to such an extent that it now deals in almost all areas of policy-making. Its budget, however, has barely changed over this period. It thus needs to be radically reformed if it is to reflect the priorities of an expanding and deepening Union. Over 40% of spending still supports agriculture, a declining sector; spending for research and innovation, recognised as the main driving force of productivity growth, is too low, and there is no room in the budget for the new public goods of domestic and external security that the public demands. However, the budget is determined through an inter-governmental negotiation in which no entity defends the over-arching European interest since all countries (rationally) care only about their 'net balance'. Radical changes in budgetary decision-making procedures are no longer possible since the Reform Treaty, now in the ratification process, essentially cemented a procedure that combines the primacy of national interests with a very strong status quo bias. The latter arises because in the absence of a unanimous agreement on new priorities the old budget automatically continues to apply. If this status quo bias cannot be broken major reforms become virtually impossible. The forthcoming mid-term review of the budget should be used to achieve political agreement on breaking the status quo bias by introducing 'sunset' clauses, which stipulate that major spending programmes will be discontinued after a certain period of time unless their usefulness can be ascertained and a new agreement reached allowing their continuation. Movement in the right direction can thus start immediately, even within the present legal framework, especially if Parliament uses its influence to push for a better allocation of expenditure.

Author : G. Benedetto
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137004983
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Union Budget Reform written by G. Benedetto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tension between (richer) contributing Member States and (poorer) recipient Member States has always characterised the history of the budget of the European Union, the politics of which has often turned fraught. This volume evaluates the prospects for major change to expenditure and the structure of the budget for the period starting in 2014.

Author : Renaud Thillaye
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786602857
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can the EU Spend Better? written by Renaud Thillaye and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main parameters of the EU budget are decided upon every seven years when the MFF (Multi-annual Financial Framework) is negotiated. Before the end of 2016, EU institutions will undertake a mid-term review of the EU’s 2014-2020. This comes in a context of severe turbulences for the EU project: a difficult economic and social situation in most member states, huge migration pressures and new security threats stemming from an unstable environment, and the Britain’s decision to leave the EU. At the same time, EU countries need to face up to climate change and engineer a smooth transition towards an innovation-based sustainable economic model. The EU’s very survival depends on the ability to respond to these multiple challenges in the next few years. Making a smarter and more strategic use of the €960 billion MFF has become a necessity. Can the EU Spend Better? argues that the scope for a substantial revision of the MFF is limited in the short-term. At most, pressing issues such as terrorism and the deteriorated social situation will lead to greater flexibility in the use of existing envelopes. However, the debate starting in 2017 over the next MFF provides with the opportunity of more substantial shifts in four main directions: more investment- and performance-oriented spending; the expansion of climate conditionality to all spending areas; more targeted redistributive spending matched with greater reform conditionality; a more outward-looking budget.

Author : Magdalena Sapała
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789284617340
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance Budgeting written by Magdalena Sapała and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, the European Commission launched an initiative entitled 'The EU budget focused on results'. It is aimed at changing spending culture and making results a horizontal priority for the EU budget. The initiative is based on a popular contemporary budgeting method known as 'performance budgeting'. This paper presents the method and its application to the EU budget. It explains why, although not easy to implement, performance budgeting is seen as an attractive way to increase value for money and enhance the transparency and democratic accountability of public finances. The paper also analyses how the performance budgeting approach has evolved within the EU budgetary system and what challenges and obstacles to its implementation remain. The commitment of the European Commission to the principles of performance budgeting, as well as the broad support for the idea expressed by the European Parliament and the Council, give grounds to believe that these efforts will continue in the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework.

Author : G. Benedetto
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137004983
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Union Budget Reform written by G. Benedetto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tension between (richer) contributing Member States and (poorer) recipient Member States has always characterised the history of the budget of the European Union, the politics of which has often turned fraught. This volume evaluates the prospects for major change to expenditure and the structure of the budget for the period starting in 2014.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Better Budget for the European Union written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brigid Laffan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Finances of the European Union written by Brigid Laffan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the growing financial power of the European Union in a lively and accessible form. It examines how the budget is used, how it is managed and assesses the future prospects of the budget.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. European Union Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780104006290
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Future Financing of the European Union written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. European Union Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiations are underway to agree the details of the European Union budget for the period of 2007 to 2013 (known as the Financial Perspective), covering the newly enlarged EU of 25 member states. Further enlargement is likely, with Bulgaria and Romania due to join in 2007 and the possible accession of Croatia and Turkey being considered. The Committee's report considers a range of issues in relation to the current budget debate, including the merits of the Commission's proposals within the framework of recent and future EU enlargement; the Common Agricultural Policy; Structural and Cohesion Funds; the Lisbon Agenda; other spending categories; the functioning of the 'Own Resources' and a EU tax; UK abatement and the Commission's proposal for a Generalised Corrective Mechanism. Conclusions reached include support for the UK Government's insistence that the UK rebate is non-negotiable, given the inadequate reforms of the CAP; however, if real reform of the budget was offered, then the UK Government should be prepared to negotiate. Structural funds should be focused on the 10 new member states, as well as the two applicant countries of Romania and Bulgaria, with the phasing out of EU regional development funds for all 'old' member states with the exception of Greece and Portugal.

Author : Brigid Laffan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333609859
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Finances of the European Union written by Brigid Laffan and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the growing financial power of the European Union in a lively and accessible form. It examines how the budget is used to enhance the internal cohesion of the Union and its growing external commitments. Considerable attention is paid to lesser known aspects of EU finances such as the work of the EIB and the Court of Auditors. The management of EU finances is a central focus of this book. The book concludes with an assessment of the future prospects of the budget.

Author : Elena-Simina Tănăsescu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351723510
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Law and the EU Balanced Budget Principle written by Elena-Simina Tănăsescu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the balanced budget rule as an economic standard and as a legal principle, this book explains the context and content of the balanced budget rule and presents a critical appraisal of its impact on legal systems, political institutions and social values, and particularly an evaluation of its constitutionalization in the European and national legal systems. Examining a range of perspectives on the balanced budget rule as a legal principle, a series of chapters investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of the balanced budget rule. The book considers the impact this may have on the separation of powers within the state, on democratic decision-making, on the European social model and on the protection of fundamental social rights within the European Union. It suggests that this impact goes beyond the ethical issue of the public debt considered as a burden placed on future generations, and beyond injunctions imposed by international financial institutions on national public finances. The transfiguration of fiscal discipline from an economic requirement into a legal rule demanding a balanced budget embodies a challenge to the political nature of the budgetary process while creating the flexibility needed in order to further fiscal federalism within the European Union. This book argues that the balanced budget rule is nothing more than it has always been: an instrument for devising public policies in a rational manner, a tool for conceiving qualitative choices regarding the well-being of citizens.