Financing the EU Budget ：Moving Forward or Backwards? ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Moving Forward or Backwards?

Publication series ：1

Author： Cipriani Gabriele

Publisher： Rowman & Littlefield International‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781783483310

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781783483303

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781783483303

Subject： D0 Political Theory;D73/77 National Politics;F8 Finances

Keyword：政治、法律,社会学,政治理论,财政、金融

Language： ENG

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Description

Gabriele Cipriani presents a historical overview of the EU revenue system, the context for revenue-raising arrangements and the concept of the EU's “own resources.” He assesses the current system against issues of simplicity, transparency, equity, and democratic accountability and outlines two possible options for reforming the EU revenue system.

Chapter

Financing The EU Budget

Contents

Preface

1. The EU budget revenue system

EU revenue: A short history

What do ‘own resources’ actually mean?

To each its own

The price of unanimity

Who pays how much?

Concluding remarks

2. Simplicity, transparency, equity and democratic accountability

Four good reasons for change

The drawbacks of the 2011 Commission’s proposals

New VAT-based resource

Financial transaction tax

Correction mechanism

Reducing the burden on national budgets?

Two categories of revenue sources for the EU budget

Back to the past

Making an EU resource visible to citizens

Concluding remarks

3. EU expenditure: The other side of the same coin

The legitimacy of EU revenue

How much money for the EU budget ?

Concluding remarks

References

Index

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