Der Beirat nimmt die aktuelle Debatte über den EU-Haushalt zum Anlass, zur Gesamtstruktur des EU-Haushalts und zur Höhe der Agrarausgaben Stellung zu nehmen. Die von verschiedenen Seiten geäußerte Forderung nach einer Umschichtung von Finanzmitteln zu Lasten des EU-Agrarhaushaltes lässt...

Codecision is the main European Union legislative procedure and the 2007 Reform Treaty draft has adopted it to improve the budgetary process. However, at close examination, codecision and the current budgetary process show an identical structure. Both are designed as non-cooperative alternating...

While according to the so-called ‘Brussels-Frankfurt consensus’, sound fiscal policies and structural reforms support each other, it is often claimed that the EU fiscal framework, by reducing the budgetary room for manoeuvre and the political capital of governments, may deter reforms. The...