Download or read book A Guide to EU Funding written by European Commission and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the evolution of the world economy and its impact on Europe, the European Commission proposed a set of programmes to boost jobs, growth and investment across the European Union. The programmes are part of the multiannual financial framework 2014-2020. This publication guides you through these programmes and the funding opportunities they offer are briefly described here in this booklet. Detailed information is available on the European Commission's website. EU funding opportunities prove the added value of the EU budget in a number of fields, from research, employment, regional development and cooperation to education, culture, environment, humanitarian aid and energy, among many others. Significant support is available to small and medium-sized businesses, non-governmental and civil society non-profit organisations, young people, researchers, farmers and public bodies, to name a few.

Download or read book Can the EU Spend Better written by Renaud Thillaye and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main parameters of the EU budget are decided upon every seven years when the MFF (Multi-annual Financial Framework) is negotiated. Before the end of 2016, EU institutions will undertake a mid-term review of the EU’s 2014-2020. This comes in a context of severe turbulences for the EU project: a difficult economic and social situation in most member states, huge migration pressures and new security threats stemming from an unstable environment, and the Britain’s decision to leave the EU. At the same time, EU countries need to face up to climate change and engineer a smooth transition towards an innovation-based sustainable economic model. The EU’s very survival depends on the ability to respond to these multiple challenges in the next few years. Making a smarter and more strategic use of the €960 billion MFF has become a necessity. Can the EU Spend Better? argues that the scope for a substantial revision of the MFF is limited in the short-term. At most, pressing issues such as terrorism and the deteriorated social situation will lead to greater flexibility in the use of existing envelopes. However, the debate starting in 2017 over the next MFF provides with the opportunity of more substantial shifts in four main directions: more investment- and performance-oriented spending; the expansion of climate conditionality to all spending areas; more targeted redistributive spending matched with greater reform conditionality; a more outward-looking budget.

Download or read book Multiannual Financial Framework 2014 2020 and EU Budget 2014 written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this publication is to present the key figures of the 2014-2020 multiannual financial framework (MFF) as well as to present an overview of the 2014 EU budget. It also contains basic information on the budget revenue. The 2014-2020 MFF brings in a whole set of new programmes that cover Europe's political priorities for the next 7 years: research and innovation (Horizon 2020), connecting together the transport, energy and IT infrastructure of all Member States (connecting Europe facility), education (Erasmus+), job opportunities for our youth (youth employment initiative) and competitiveness of Europe's businesses (COSME), to name a few. In a nutshell, the next financial period will see Europe do more -- especially in the abovementioned areas -- with less, as for the first time the ceilings for that period will be lower than the previous ones. As for the 2014 EU budget, it will be the first budget of the new financial period (2014-2020). Both the budget and the MFF, born in times of crisis, reflect the current situation in the EU. Signs of economic recovery are visible, but it is too early to talk about the crisis in the past tense. -- EU Bookshop.

Download or read book European Union Public Finance written by European Commission. Directorate-General for the Budget and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as a presentation of the new 2014-2020 multiannual financial framework, this book covers the full history of the EU budget from 1953 on. It also offers an in-depth explanation of the legal framework governing the adoption and management of the EU budget as well as an overview of its structure. Last but not least, it features a detailed overview of the control mechanisms which apply to the EU budget so that it respects sound financial management principles. This publication provides expert readers with the information needed to gain a more detailed understanding of how the EU budget can contribute to building a competitive and more prosperous Europe. It can also serve as a solid reference work for all those interested in EU budgetary matters.

Download or read book European Commission Proposal for the 2014 2020 Multiannual Financial Framework written by European Commission. Directorate-General for the Budget and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multiannual financial framework (MFF, formely 'financial perspectives') is not the budget of the EU for seven years. It is a mechanism for ensuring that EU spending is predictable and at the same time subject to strict budgetary discipline. It defines the maximum amounts ('ceilings') available for each major spending area ('heading') of the Union's budget. Within that framework, the European Parliament and the Council, which are the 'budgetary authority' of the Union, have to agree each year on the budget for the subsequent year. In reality, the annual budget adopted always remains below the overall ceiling of the MFF -- EU Bookshop.

Download or read book EU Budget 2014 2020 written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The new European Budgetary Order written by Robin Degron and published by Bruylant. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sovereign debt crisis pushed the EU to take a new step to the common financial rules. After some years of ‘soft budgetary carefreeness’, the European Budgetary Treaty boosted the movement of budgetary convergence in the EU. The ‘Six Pack’ and the ‘Two Pack’ consolidated the effectiveness of a new European budgetary order founded by the Maastricht Treaty and the Stability and Growth Pact. Even if mechanisms adopted by the Member States are formally different in law, conditions of European budgetary orthodoxy have been definitively hardened. This new rigor has a great impact on all the public administrations, as defined by the European Accounts System and Eurostat. The EU is a key-player of the budgetary game. This great power makes the EU accountable to the general economic situation within Europe and amongst all Member States. Budgetary regulation must be conciliated with preservation of some investment means to develop potential growth on the continent. ‘Giant in law’, the EU has to be responsible from an economic point of view. The problem is that, from a budgetary standpoint, the EU remains a ‘dwarf’. The European general budget is about 1% of the EU gross national income. The budgetary power of the EU is less than one twentieth of the USA federal financial power. Balance between ‘budgetary dwarf ’ and ‘giant in law’ is characteristic of ‘adolescence’ of the EU finances. Natural consequence of this situation, the EU capacities for redistributing and stabilization are still relatively limited. To overtake this powerlessness, the EU has used no budgetary tools by appealing to the European Investment Bank and the European Investment Fund. However, the ability of the EU to support public investment is not sufficient today to promote an authentic economic relaunching policy and to support the global competition, especially with the USA and China. With a ‘powerful brake’ and a ‘poor accelerator’, the risk is the European public investments continue to stand by. This is the investment paradox of the European budgetary order. Will the next negotiation on the multiyear financial framework post 2020 be able to change the point ? It is not sure, especially in the Brexit context. Negotiating an European financial agenda is always long and difficult. But, the exit of the United Kingdom could makes the game more disputed than ever. A thing is clear : beyond the technical and financial sizes of the new roadmap proposals established by the Commission, the democratic control of the European Parliament is still limited. The EU budgetary framework and timetable are too inert, not enough reactive, far from European citizens actually. In the historical moments we live, it is certainly a strategic mistake to not involve much more citizens and their representatives in the crucial negotiation on the long-term finances of the EU. This is the technocratic risk of the new European budgetary order.

Download or read book How Flexible is the EU Budget written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1988 introduction of multiannual financial frameworks (MFF) in the European Union (EU) budgetary system has improved financial predictability and facilitated the development of multiannual spending programmes, but has had to be balanced by measures that provided some flexibility and ability to react to unexpected situations. Over the years, these flexibility instruments and mechanisms have developed and proved to be useful. Occasions to use them were frequent, as the crises and challenges faced by the EU required actions that could not be financed under the tight expenditure ceilings of the agreed MFFs. Experience of implementation of the 2014-2020 MFF demonstrated that, with neither relevant flexibility mechanisms nor the possibility to revise the MFF in the mid-term, achieving policy goals and reacting adequately to unexpected events and crises, especially in the area of migration and security, would be impossible. The flexibility of the EU budgets has already featured as an important issue in the negotiations of the 2021-2027 MFF. The views of the main actors - the European Commission, the Parliament and the Council -on enhancing and designing such flexibility instruments diverge. It has yet to be seen if the issue,following the pattern of the 2014-2020 MFF negotiations, will play a key role in reaching anagreement.

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 315 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 The Performance Framework for the EU Budget Under the 2021 2027 Multiannual Financial Framework written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework (MFF) is at the heart of the EU's economic policy framework, more so today than ever before. The EU budget will power the EU's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will help to address the ongoing health emergency, kick-start the recovery, steer our economies and societies towards a more sustainable, digital and resilient future, and strengthen the EU's geopolitical role. Over the next seven years, unprecedented amounts of funding will be channelled through the EU budget to address these challenges. Together with NextGenerationEU - the EUR 750 billion recovery instrument - the 2021-2027 MFF amounts to more than EUR 1.8 trillion. This is close to double the size of the budget for 2014-2020 and is the largest investment package ever financed through the EU budget.

Download or read book The Performance Framework for the EU Budget Under the 2021 2027 Multiannual Financial Framework written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework (MFF) is at the heart of the EU's economic policy framework, more so today than ever before. The EU budget will power the EU's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will help to address the ongoing health emergency, kick-start the recovery, steer our economies and societies towards a more sustainable, digital and resilient future, and strengthen the EU's geopolitical role. Over the next seven years, unprecedented amounts of funding will be channelled through the EU budget to address these challenges. Together with NextGenerationEU - the EUR 750 billion recovery instrument - the 2021-2027 MFF amounts to more than EUR 1.8 trillion. This is close to double the size of the budget for 2014-2020 and is the largest investment package ever financed through the EU budget.

Download or read book The Right Moment to Reform the EU Budget written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The High Level Group on Own Resources (HLGOR) chaired by Mario Monti presented its final report on 17 January 2017. It contains recommendations for reform of the European Union's own resources system. In October 2016, as part of its mid-term review of the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF 2014-2020), the European Commission marked starting points for reforms on the expenditure side of the EU budget. Now, the EU is turning its attention to the revenue side. The European Commission must draw up its proposals for the next MFF, applicable after 2020, by the end of 2017. The debate on a comprehensive reorganisation of European budget policy will then begin to gather speed. (author's abstract)

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.

Download or read book New Financial Rules Applicable to the General Budget of the European Union written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 2016, the European Commission launched the mid-term review/revision (MTR) of the EU budget, which resulted in a large number of proposed amendments to the Regulation on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union and other related EU regulations. These aimed to improve the implementation of the EU budget during the current Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) period (2014-2020), in response to the numerous extraordinary challenges that had emerged since the latest budget was adopted. Contrary to expectations, however, the proposals did not present fundamental changes to the current budget structure. The proposals have placed considerable pressure on lawmakers given the sheer number of reforms called for, many of which attempt to improve delivery through a process of simplification. It is difficult to understand the implications of the proposals for local and regional authorities (LRAs), because many authorities have not yet been able to adopt and/or adapt all of the existing rules. This report first explores the causes that have undermined the ability of the EU budget to address modern challenges. It then attempts to identify the main impact of the proposals on LRAs, through an in-depth review and analysis of the latest documentation, supplemented by personal interviews with key local, national and regional authorities. A main finding is that past reforms have made the implementation of programmes and the achievement of goals excessively complex for managing authorities (MAs) and beneficiaries.

Download or read book Thirteenth Report of Session 2012 13 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: European Scrutiny Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book EU Budget 2014 2020 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A New Look at Net Balances in the European Union s Next Multiannual Budget written by Zsolt M. Darvas and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whenever the European Union's budget is discussed, much of the political focus is on net balances - whether countries pay in more than they receive - rather than on the broader overall positive effects of EU spending. Thelargest net contributor countries have sought to limit their contributions,leading to the build-up of an ad-hoc, complex, opaque and regressivesystem of revenue corrections.To inform debate on the 2021-2027 EU budget, I estimated the impact on net balances of the 2018 European Commission multiannual budget proposal, under three scenarios: elimination of rebates for all of the 2021-2027 new budget period, gradual elimination of rebates and non-elimination of rebates. These estimates were done on the basis of the EU's "operating budgetary balance" indicator, and on the basis of a new and broader indicator, the "net direct balance". The calculation also takes into account the estimated net contribution of the United Kingdom to the 2021-2027 EU budget based on the draft EU-UK withdrawal agreement.Under the baseline scenario of the Commission's proposal, those member states that currently benefit from rebates would face between 0.01 percent of GNI and 0.06 percent of GNI increases in their net contributions to the EU budget, measured by the EU's operating budgetary balance indicator. Meanwhile, central and eastern European member states that received several percent of their GNI as net payments from the EU in 2014-2020 would face significant reductions, though they would still receive net payments of about two percent of their GNI in 2021-2027.The methodology in this paper can be easily applied to estimate the net balance implications of any new MFF proposal.