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The EU Budget: What for? Synthesis of the Seminar. Marjorie JOUEN Eulalia RUBIO Notre Europe – 18th October 2007 www.notre-europe.eu. Why a seminar on the EU budget? Mid-term budgetary review in 2008-2009 20 th anniversary of the First Delors Package New policy challenges.
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The EU Budget: What for?Synthesis of the Seminar Marjorie JOUEN Eulalia RUBIO Notre Europe – 18th October 2007 www.notre-europe.eu
Why a seminar on the EU budget? • Mid-term budgetary review in 2008-2009 • 20th anniversary of the First Delors Package • New policy challenges
How did we proceed? • Objectives • Selection of participants • Structure of the seminar
The outcome • What the EU budget is not for? • What the EU budget is or should be for? • How to make progress towards a “good” EU budget?
1 – What the EU budget is not for? Re-distribute money among the MS • Provide permanent and/or unconditional support to certain actors / sectors • Interpersonal redistribution
1 – What the EU budget is not for? Macro-economic stabilisation • Provide resources regardless other levels of governance/ other means of intervention • Feed annual over-detailed disputes
2 – What the EU budget is or should be for? Finance ‘real’ EU public goods • Instrument to support a political project • Support realisation of EU statutory goals • Meet EU future challenges
2 – What the EU budget is or should be for? • Compensate for the negative effects of the integration process • Incentive/disincentive actions at the national or sub-national level • A tool to leverage private spending
2 – What the EU budget is or should be for? Therefore, EU budget should be: More than the monetary expression of the EU added value Not reactive, but proactive A budget for the EU and not for the EU member states
3 – How to make progress towards a « good » EU budget? Agreed guidelines for a radical reform • Follow objective criteria • Medium-term perspective • EP should play a greater role • Aggregate approach • Better and more evaluation
3 – How to make progress towards a « good » EU budget? Still open questions • Which objective criteria? • Do we have to increase the size of the EU budget? • What should be the scope of the reform of the EU financing system? • If we need an EU tax, which one? • How should the budgetary competence be shared between the 3 EU institutions?
FINAL REMARKS • Better budgetary mix will enhance the legitimacy of the EU in the eyes of the citizens • The way the next EU budget will be built will reflect the political vision of the EU • The political ambition of the actors will determine the scope of the reform
Marjorie JOUEN (mjouen@notre-europe.eu) Eulalia RUBIO (erubio@notre-europe.eu)