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Reframing the EU budget decision-making process. Bruegel Working Paper 2009/03, May 2009

Santos, Indhira and Neheider, Susanne. (2009) Reframing the EU budget decision-making process. Bruegel Working Paper 2009/03, May 2009. [Working Paper]

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    Abstract

    This paper traces the history of the EU budget and draws lessons for the review to come. Whatever reforms are proposed, the authors believe that they must serve to shift spending to policy areas and instruments where the EU can best add value while at the same time recognising the political need for member states to present EU budget negotiation results in ‘net-balance’ terms. A two-stage negotiation is proposed: first member states should negotiate and agree on what constitute EU public goods. Everything else would thereafter - by default - be deemed redistributive/compensatory spending to be financed on the basis of member states’ current overall net balances.

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    Item Type: Working Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > budgets & financing
    EU policies and themes > EU institutions & developments > institutional development/policy > decision making/policy-making
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Bruegel (Brussels) > Working Papers
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 10 Jun 2009
    Page Range: p. 30
    Last Modified: 12 Feb 2018 16:12
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11174

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