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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: A way forward
    Policy brief by John Peet is Europe editor of The Economist., 01 September 2005

    Many of the bitterest arguments in the European Union have been about money. That is partly because the budget is inherently a zero-sum game: more for one country means less for others.
  • The EU's common fisheries policy: The case for reform, not abolition
    Policy brief by Aurore Wanlin, 01 April 2005

    During the British general election campaign, political parties have found the EU's common fisheries policy (CFP) a temptingly soft target.
  • The EU budget: Common future or stuck in the past?
    Briefing note by Iain Begg, 06 February 2004

    The EU's common budget is small and rather rigid. Most of its outlays are determined years in advance, and most of them go on just two policies, namely support for farmers and poorer regions. Yet the EU budget invariably attracts acrimonious debate and close scrutiny out of all proportion to its economic significance.

  • The EU's budget: Time to go back to basics
    Bulletin article by Friedrich Heinemann , 02 December 2002

    The EU's summit in November descended into a nasty row between EU leaders about the Union's finances. The dilemma member-states face is how to finance enlargement the accession of ten, poorer countries without taking funds away from current EU members or pushing spending above the existing budget ceiling of 1.27 per cent of EU GDP.
  • The future of European agriculture
    Report by Julie Wolf, 01 November 2002

    The need to reform European farm policies has never been clearer. Although the Brussels European Council in October put a ceiling on farm spending, the Commission's 'mid-term review' of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will continue, and there is a real chance to change the policy's priorities over the next few years.
  • The EU needs a flexible pact
    Bulletin article by Alasdair Murray, 01 April 2002

    The decision of EU finance ministers in February 2002 to ignore a Commission proposal to warn Germany and Portugal over the level of their budget deficits has jeopardised the credibility of the Stability and Growth Pact.
  • Europe must get on-message
    Bulletin article by Gareth Harding, 01 February 2002

    The EU spends 100 million euro each year on its communications budget, yet is demonstrably failing to 'connect' with Europe's 380 million citizens.
  • The EU budget: An agenda for reform
    Working paper by John Peet, Kitty Ussher, 05 February 1999

    The nastiest arguments in the European Union, as in any family, are the ones about money. Communautaire sentiment soon evaporates when prime ministers start to haggle over the budget.