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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 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.
  • Why Europe deserves a better farm policy
    Policy brief by Jack Thurston, 01 December 2005

    The prospects for radical CAP reform look bleak. At the time of writing (December 2005) neither the arguments over the EU budget nor pressure from major farm exporters at the world trade negotiations look likely to force the EU to reform.
  • A 'smart growth' strategy for sustainable development
    Briefing note by Iain Begg, 01 November 2005

    Amid the insults and recriminations which followed the collapse of the EU budget negotiations last June, few people noticed that EU leaders succeeded in reaching agreement on a new sustainable development strategy.