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Splitting Europe’s budget bill
February 03, 2010 / Jack Thurston
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Some are Gold Diggers, happy to reap the benefits of integration and let others pick up the tab. Others are Misers – fans of budget discipline and a smaller CAP, but keen to claim compensation for their net balance deficits. Others still are Fence-Sitters: quick to pay lip service to the idea of budgetary discipline, they are still keen to maintain CAP spending levels.
That is the conclusion of a new paper analysing the EU member states' responses to the “fundamental” review of the EU budget, which the European Commission launched in 2007.
We examined the responses of the member states, because their views, expressed through the European Council, are by far the most important consideration in determining the future of the budget. In particular, we examined their views on the Common Agricultural Policy. The CAP is the biggest single item in the EU budget (accounting for 45%) – and the biggest cause of politically contentious ‘budget imbalances' among member states.
Read the full article by Jack Thurston and James Clasper, please click here .