that the current EU budget setting is, at best, neutral with respect to the EU-wide long-term growth potential and may …This paper analyses the European budget and the position of the ten new member states. We argue that the EU budget … should be reconsidered, as the Union has expanded to 27 member states and has become more heterogeneous. The budget …

This paper measures the net redistributive impact of the EU budget. It finds that for every € 1,000 difference in … income per capita across countries, € 9 is offset by lower contributions to the budget and € 3 is offset by higher … expenditures by the budget. The overall equalising effect is small (1.1%) and mainly depends on the revenue side, in particular on …

) that de-growth is necessary, ii) that the market economy is part of the problem rather than part of the solution to climate …

of budget governance can be improved by using a comprehensive approach only that will help to cover the broadest range of … be placed on resolution of the issues of budget system restructuring, higher transparency of the state procurement system … and optimization of certain budget procedures. As a favorable institutional environment evolves in the country, any …

fiscal policy's bias toward budget deficit only temporarily ceased at the end of the 20th century as European countries … the EU's Stability and Growth Pact, suffer from the same endogeneity flaw. Consequently, we argue that a fiscal rule must …

comparably better with regard to the stabilization objective than budget or debt rules. …