Schratzenstaller, Margit; Berghuber, Bernd - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 79 (2006) 12, pp. 893-910
Without any tax sovereignty of its own and faced with a substantial decline in the volume of "traditional own resources" (customs duties, agricultural levies, sugar levies), the European Union is left with a very low level of revenue autonomy. The EU budget is financed primarily from national...