Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121890 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
FIW Policy Brief No. 19
Publisher: 
FIW - Research Centre International Economics, Vienna
Abstract: 
As a consequence of the 2008-2009 international financial crisis the European Union is undergoing per-haps its most difficult period since the beginnings of the European integration. The response to this challenge includes decisions and planned steps to strengthen fiscal discipline in the member states, safeguard measures against a falling-apart of the eurozone and the introduction of a Union-wide super-vision of the European banking sector. A new fiscal capacity (budget) for the eurozone is under consid-eration. It seems that the extraordinary situation has triggered a wave of extraordinary reforms throughout the EU. In one area, the Community Budget, however, time seems to have stopped temporarily. The European Council of 22-23 November 2012 was unable to arrive at a compromise on the terms of the Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF or the EU budget) and postponed the decision to 7-8 February. The contradiction between the decades-old unsolved budgetary problems and the rapidly changing environment cannot be greater as it is now.
Subjects: 
European Union
Multiannual Financial Framework
EU budget
net financial position
Cohesion Policy
CAP
Europe 2020
JEL: 
F36
Document Type: 
Research Report

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