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  • The European Union budget 2014-20: More boldness needed
    Policy brief by Stephen Tindale, John Peet, 05 April 2012
    The European Union budget 2014-20: More boldness needed
  • The new EU budget: A missed opportunity
    Insight by Stephen Tindale, 11 July 2011
    The new EU budget: A missed opportunity
  • The EU budget: The Union risks having the wrong debate
    Bulletin article by Stephen Tindale, 01 April 2011
    The EU budget: The Union risks having the wrong debate
  • The European Union budget 2014-20: More boldness needed
    Policy brief by Stephen Tindale, 05 April 2012

    Economic circumstances will make EU budget negotiations even more difficult than usual. Britain, France and Germany should drop their normal preconditions.
  • The new EU budget: A missed opportunity
    Insight by Stephen Tindale, 11 July 2011
    The Commission's proposals for the EU's 2014-2020 budgets are a missed opportunity, representing no substantial change. Spending on agriculture should be greatly reduced, that on cohesion re-focused and that on climate greatly increased.
  • The EU budget: The Union risks having the wrong debate
    Bulletin article by Stephen Tindale, 01 April 2011

    In an age of fiscal austerity, the focus of the forthcoming EU budget talks will be even more strongly on net balances: how much a country pays in and how much it gets back.

  • A chance for further CAP reform
    Policy brief by Christopher Haskins, 28 February 2011

    This policy brief argues that the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy which Commissioner Fischler began over a decade ago must now be completed.
  • David Cameron's budget fight remains an EU sideshow
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    The Guardian, 29 October 2010

    David Cameron has won his first European victory. At this week's EU summit in Brussels, he seemingly persuaded a dozen other European leaders to back his demand to limit to 2.9% next year's EU spending increase. Britain's eurosceptics wanted a freeze or a reduction.
  • Get with it, Europe
    Opinion piece by Simon Tilford
    The International Herald Tribune, 09 March 2007

    It is seven years since the European Union launched its Lisbon agenda of economic reforms aimed at transforming the competitiveness of the European economy by 2010. Despite the pessimism, there has been much to cheer.
  • Towards an environmental union
    Bulletin article by David Miliband, 02 October 2006

    When I was involved in the creation of CER in 1994 I hoped it would become an important source of ideas and debate about the future of Europe.
  • New budget, old dilemmas
    Briefing note by Iain Begg, 22 February 2006

    After months of fierce haggling, the UK government managed to broker a deal on the EU's new budget at the Union's summit in December 2005.