About 75% of the EU budget are transfer expenditures that go to the agricultural sector and to regional policies. This has long been criticised but the structure of the EU budget has barely changed over the last decades. The EU finances are mainly based on a unanimous agreement between the heads...

Die Strukturpolitik der Europäischen Union erfuhr seit dem Jahr 1975 eine erhebliche Ausweitung, die oft eng mit weitgehenden Integrationsschritten wie Erweiterungen oder der Verabschiedung wichtiger Verträge einherging. Der vorliegende Beitrag zeichnet die wesentlichen Entwicklungsstationen...

With twelve new members the decision making in the European Union via intergovernmental cooperation will become ineffective. In order to avoid a Stagno-Europe the EU has a choice: Either it looks for the very essentials in the common institutional frame or the member states agree in ceding...