The EU’s economic policy is based on political experiment and innovation. We are placing the macro-regional strategies into this learning procedure and positioning them compared to the economic policy toolkit of the EU. After analysing and compar-ing these new concepts (Baltic Sea, Danube and...

Environmental protection and sustainable development have become major topics on the global agenda (OECD, 2008, European Commission, 2007) partly because of the seriousness of the situation and partly because of the need for international cooperation. Global climate change has made it clear to...

Ten years after the collapse of the East Central European planned economic systems, the European Council set out a ten-year economic modernization agenda at its March 2000 session in Lisbon. The aim of the ambitious concept called Lisbon Strategy, is to make the European Union “the most...

The article firstly gives a short summary concerning the own resources system financing the budget of the EU and the state of the VAT based resource within this system. Afterwards, with the help of the Hungarian VAT base statement, it specifies the methodology of the calculation of the...