The EU budget is a tool through which money is collected and allocated for EU policies and objectives as well as for the tasks transferred to it from the national level. This article starts by presenting the concept and evolution of the EU budget. It then discusses the principles and procedures...

The main objective of the paper is to assess macroeconomic and financial absorption capacity of the EU candidate country Turkey for the use of preaccession funds in the period before the country will join the European Union as well as for the use of structural action funds in the period...

This study is concerned with the future financing of the EU budget, including possible budgetary correction mechanisms, and is intended to feed into the budget review. The revenue side of the EU budget comprises several elements, all of which need to be assessed in appraising the functioning of...

Thirty years of The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (by Kazimierz Laski) The reform agenda and the Washington Consensus (by John Williamson) 'Last-minute' warnings from Brussels to the acceding countries (by Sándor Richter) Slovenia's accession to the EU fiscal implications...

This paper analyzes economic cooperation between Slovenia and the countries of the former Yugoslavia. We find the region still highly unstable and bearing a high trade deficit that may prompt the governments in the region to put restrictions on trade. In order to secure exports markets, a number...