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Maximizing the EU Budget: A Path Towards a Stronger Europe

Explore the objectives and outcomes of the EU budget with insights on its purpose, reform guidelines, and future direction. Understand what the budget is and isn't for, and how it can shape the EU's political vision.

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Maximizing the EU Budget: A Path Towards a Stronger Europe

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  1. The EU Budget: What for?Synthesis of the Seminar Marjorie JOUEN Eulalia RUBIO Notre Europe – 18th October 2007 www.notre-europe.eu

  2. Why a seminar on the EU budget? • Mid-term budgetary review in 2008-2009 • 20th anniversary of the First Delors Package • New policy challenges

  3. How did we proceed? • Objectives • Selection of participants • Structure of the seminar

  4. 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?

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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?

  12. 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

  13. Marjorie JOUEN (mjouen@notre-europe.eu) Eulalia RUBIO (erubio@notre-europe.eu)

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