European Union Budget Reform: Institutions, Policy and Economic Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781349434619 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 213 str.

Giacomo Benedetto;Simona Milio

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'This is one of the best books yet written on the EU budget. Combining historical analysis, the role of the governments and the EU institutions in budgetary bargaining, and reform potential of the main spending priorities, the book covers all the key contemporary issues on this topic. As the EU heads towards the negotiation of the next multiannual financial framework this book will be a valuable resource for EU scholars as well as policy-makers'

Simon Hix, Professor of European and Comparative Politics, London School of Economics

'This timely book provides important insights into the difficulties facing EU leaders as they negotiate a new budgetary framework for the EU. I really like the way the thought-provoking contributions identify clearly the problems faced, and lay down a challenge by presenting EU policy-makers with workable solutions.'

Professor Robert Ackrill, Jean Monnet Chair in European Economic Studies, Nottingham Business School

'An extremely timely contribution to the budgetary debate that has been near the centre of EU politics for more than 25 years, this book offers a well-informed view of where that debate may go next'

-Michael Shackleton, Special Professor in European Institutions, University of Maastricht, and former European Parliament official

Spis treści

Preface; S. Wall Introduction: A History of the European Union Budget and the Possibilities for Reform; G. Benedetto PART I: THE POLITICS OF BUDGET REFORM Negotiations of the European Union Budget: How Decision Processes Constrain Policy Ambition; S. Hagemann Budget Reform and the Lisbon Treaty; G. Benedetto European Growth Policies in Times of Change: Budget Reform, Economic Crisis and Policy Entrepreneurship; R. Kaiser   H. Prange-Gstöhl The Lisbon Treaty, Financial Crisis and Exit from Budget Gridlock; C. B. Blankart   G. B. Koester PART II: PUBLIC SPENDING AND BUDGET REFORM Reform of the European Union Budget: Implications for the Common Agricultural Policy; A. Greer Challenges for the Future of the Structural Funds; S. Milio Foreign and Security Policy in Austerity Europe: Budgetary Aspects of the Development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Common Security and Defence Policy; A. Miskimmon Conclusion: Budget Policy, Past Experience and the Future; G. Benedetto   S. Milio Bibliography Index

O autorze

GIACOMO BENEDETTO Director of European Studies and Lecturer in Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK CHARLES B. BLANKART Senior Professor, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany and Permanent Guest Professor at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland ALAN GREER Reader in Politics and Public Policy, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK SARA HAGEMANN Lecturer in EU Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK ROBERT KAISER Acting Chair of Political Science, University of Siegen, Germany GERRIT B. KOESTER works in the economics department of Deutsche Bundesbank SIMONA MILIO Associate Director of the Social and Cohesion Policy Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK ALISTER MISKIMMON Senior Lecturer in European Politics, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK HEIKO PRANGE-GSTÖHL Policy Officer, European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Brussels, Belgium