Download or read book Funding the European Union written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: European Union Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report finds that the funding of the EU is complex and lacks transparency and that there is a need for a simpler system that would reduce the administrative burden. It concludes that a Gross National Income based revenue source is the best way of providing the bulk of the budget's funding. Apart from other considerations, the Committee has seen no evidence that any other new form of taxation would provide the same level of clarity and certainty.
Download or read book National Budgeting for Economic and Monetary Union written by Wildavsky and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the need for fiscal coordination and for controlling national spending in particular have been widely justified, relatively little attention has been paid to identifying and analyzing concrete measures to make this feasible. Most studies on these aspects of the Economic and Monetary Union have been concerned with questions as to why the need exists for fiscal convergence and to what degree is it desirable. Attention has only recently been focused on examining what budgetary measures (rules, procedures, structures) can be taken by the Commission or finance ministries for European convergence. The objective of this book is to discuss and suggest alternative policy-option initiatives at EC and national levels encouraging convergent financial management behaviour. Analyses are focused on the following important questions: `What is the current capacity of EC and national governments to manage public spending? '; `What budgetary strategies are available to reduce deficits? '; `What should the role of the Commission be under these circumstances? '; `What is the Member States' responsibility for managing national budgets? '; `What budgetary norms and rules should be proposed and negotiated to guarantee convergence of integration? '; `What strategic and structural arrangements could facilitate integration? ', etc.
Download or read book European Union Budget Reform written by G. Benedetto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Main Economic Policy Areas of the EEC written by P. Coffey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Peter Coffey This is indeed a most opportune time for the publication of a serious, critical and independent study about the "Main Economic Policy Areas of the EEC". The European Economic Community is the world's most import ant commercial and trading bloc and its economic policies consequently have the most far-reaching implications for all countries in the world. The rest of the world is acutely conscious of the Community's trading policies. In turn, these policies (apart from those based on historical links - ante cedent to the EEC's formation) are strongly influenced by the internal economic policies of the Common Market - especially by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). At the present time, the Community finds itself, both in ternally and externally, at a crossroads. This crossroads takes the form of a choice between 'protectionism' or 'open ness'. Unfortunately, present evidence suggests that currently and in the immediately foreseeable future the former option has been chosen by the EEC.
Download or read book The Budget of the European Union written by European Commission. Directorate-General for Education and Culture and published by Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the scale of European Union expenditure? How is it decided? How is it funded? What is it used for? How is it implemented and monitored? These are the questions to which this brochure provides concise answers.
Download or read book Rethinking the EU Budget written by Gabriele Cipriani (ekonomista) and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the main weaknesses of the EU's finances and tries to explain their originating factors. It also identifies three reforms which seem to be a precondition for progress.
Download or read book Federal Budget as an Economic Document written by United States. Congress Economic Joint Committee and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates utility of budget of U.S. in analyzing Federal economic policies.
Download or read book National Budgeting for Economic and Monetary Union written by Aaron B. Wildavsky and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1993-11-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the need for fiscal coordination and for controlling national spending in particular have been widely justified, relatively little attention has been paid to identifying and analyzing concrete measures to make this feasible. Most studies on these aspects of the Economic and Monetary Union have been concerned with questions as to why the need exists for fiscal convergence and to what degree is it desirable. Attention has only recently been focused on examining what budgetary measures (rules, procedures, structures) can be taken by the Commission or finance ministries for European convergence. The objective of this book is to discuss and suggest alternative policy-option initiatives at EC and national levels encouraging convergent financial management behaviour. Analyses are focused on the following important questions: What is the current capacity of EC and national governments to manage public spending? '; What budgetary strategies are available to reduce deficits? '; What should the role of the Commission be under these circumstances? '; What is the Member States' responsibility for managing national budgets? '; What budgetary norms and rules should be proposed and negotiated to guarantee convergence of integration? '; What strategic and structural arrangements could facilitate integration? ', etc.
Download or read book Future Financing of the European Union written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. European Union Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiations are underway to agree the details of the European Union budget for the period of 2007 to 2013 (known as the Financial Perspective), covering the newly enlarged EU of 25 member states. Further enlargement is likely, with Bulgaria and Romania due to join in 2007 and the possible accession of Croatia and Turkey being considered. The Committee's report considers a range of issues in relation to the current budget debate, including the merits of the Commission's proposals within the framework of recent and future EU enlargement; the Common Agricultural Policy; Structural and Cohesion Funds; the Lisbon Agenda; other spending categories; the functioning of the 'Own Resources' and a EU tax; UK abatement and the Commission's proposal for a Generalised Corrective Mechanism. Conclusions reached include support for the UK Government's insistence that the UK rebate is non-negotiable, given the inadequate reforms of the CAP; however, if real reform of the budget was offered, then the UK Government should be prepared to negotiate. Structural funds should be focused on the 10 new member states, as well as the two applicant countries of Romania and Bulgaria, with the phasing out of EU regional development funds for all 'old' member states with the exception of Greece and Portugal.
Download or read book The European Community s Budget written by Commission of the European Communities and published by Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. This book was released on 1981 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Budgeting and Budgetary Institutions written by Anwar Shah and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Budgeting and budgetary institutions play a critical role in resource allocation, government accountability, and improved fiscal and social outcomes. This volume distills lessons from practices in designing better fiscal institutions, citizen friendly budgets, and open and transparent processes of budget preparation and execution. It also highlights newer concepts of performance budgeting, accrual accounting, activity based costing, and the use of information and communication technology in budgeting. These tools of analysis are supplemented by a review of budgeting in post-conflict countries and two country case studies on the reform of budgeting systems.
Download or read book Final Adoption of the General Budget of the European Communities for the Financial Year written by European Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Achieve a Better Budget for the European Union written by Daniel Gros and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2008 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades the EU has widened and deepened to such an extent that it now deals in almost all areas of policy-making. Its budget, however, has barely changed over this period. It thus needs to be radically reformed if it is to reflect the priorities of an expanding and deepening Union. Over 40% of spending still supports agriculture, a declining sector; spending for research and innovation, recognised as the main driving force of productivity growth, is too low, and there is no room in the budget for the new public goods of domestic and external security that the public demands. However, the budget is determined through an inter-governmental negotiation in which no entity defends the over-arching European interest since all countries (rationally) care only about their 'net balance'. Radical changes in budgetary decision-making procedures are no longer possible since the Reform Treaty, now in the ratification process, essentially cemented a procedure that combines the primacy of national interests with a very strong status quo bias. The latter arises because in the absence of a unanimous agreement on new priorities the old budget automatically continues to apply. If this status quo bias cannot be broken major reforms become virtually impossible. The forthcoming mid-term review of the budget should be used to achieve political agreement on breaking the status quo bias by introducing 'sunset' clauses, which stipulate that major spending programmes will be discontinued after a certain period of time unless their usefulness can be ascertained and a new agreement reached allowing their continuation. Movement in the right direction can thus start immediately, even within the present legal framework, especially if Parliament uses its influence to push for a better allocation of expenditure.
Download or read book Comparative International Budgeting and Finance written by Arigapudi Premchand and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive collection of comparative budget and financial manage-ment experience includes essays on thirteen major industrial and developing countries. It provides a fascinating overview of fiscal problems and processes and provides perceptive summaries of the significant features of the budget system in each country.
Download or read book Greening the Budget written by J. Peter Clinch and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Greening the Budget offers a useful, and welcome, addition to the literature available to the environmental policymaker. The book can inspire policymakers to take a fresh look at old problems, help us to ask new questions and stimulate proposals for new solutions . . . Students of things environmental will find the book an inspiration for essay projects and research programs.' - Thorolfur Matthiasson, Environmental and Resource Economics Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the environment and explores the scope for greening both revenue and expenditure through specific measures.
Download or read book Development of the EEC Budget written by Association for a Social Democratic Europe and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing the EU Budget written by Gabriele Cipriani and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often described as complex, opaque and unfair, the EU budget financing system is an “unfinished journey.” One of the most critical issues is that EU revenue, drawn from the cashbox of national taxation, remains impalpable to the general public. The nature of the EU as a union of states and their nationals makes the visibility of EU revenue unavoidable. The political sustainability of a move that would put the legitimacy of EU revenue at the forefront of public discussion will depend on the European Commission’s ability to show that EU funds can achieve results that are truly beyond member states’ reach. The value-added tax (VAT) is a natural choice for funding the EU budget, through a dedicated EU VAT rate as part of the national VAT and designed as such in fiscal receipts, whose use as a means for raising EU citizens’ awareness could be encouraged already in the current arrangements.
