European Union budget reform: institutions, policy and economic crisis

List of Figures

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Foreword / Sir Stephen Wall

Preface

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction: A History of the European Union Budget and the Possibilities for Reform / Giacomo Benedetto

1.1. History of the budget

1.2. Thinking on budgetary reform

1.3. Structure of the volume

Part I. The Politics of Budget Reform

2. Negotiations of the European Union Budget: How Decision Processes Constrain Policy Ambitions / Sara Hagemann

2.1. Checks and balances

2.2. European Union public spending - on what?

2.3. The rules of the game

2.4. Concluding remarks

3. Budget Reform and the Lisbon Treaty / Giacomo Benedetto

3.1. Decision-making in the European Union

3.2. Changing financial powers under the Lisbon Treaty

3.3. Discussion and concluding remarks

4. European Growth Policies in Times of Change: Budget Reform, Economic Crisis and Policy Entrepreneurship / Robert Kaiser / Heiko Prange-Gstöhl

4.1. Shaping the European Union budget for growth policies in times of crisis

4.2. Policy entrepreneurship in times of economic crisis

4.3. European growth policies in times of crisis at European Union and national levels

4.4. Policy entrepreneurship and strategic choices

4.5. Concluding remarks

5. The Lisbon Treaty, the Financial Crisis and Exit from Budget Gridlock / Charles B. Blankart / Gerrit B. Koester

5.1. Budget deadlock and the Lisbon Treaty

5.2. A way out of the budget deadlock based on the Lisbon Treaty

5.3. The financial crisis and the European Union budget

5.4. Concluding remarks

Part II. Public Spending and Budget Reform

6. Reform of the European Union Budget: Implications for the Common Agricultural Policy / Alan Greer

6.1. How much? On what?

6.2. Why? What is the Common Agricultural Policy for?

6.3. The Lisbon Treaty, CAP reform and the budget post-2013

6.4. Concluding remarks

7. Challenges for the Future of the Structural Funds / Simona Milio

7.1. Cohesion and the size of the budget

7.2. Cohesion Policy, 1988-2006

7.3. Cohesion Policy, 2007-13: challenges and shortcomings

7.4. Recommendations for the Multiannual Financial Framework, 2014-20

7.5. Concluding remarks

8. Foreign and Security Policy in Austerity Europe: Budgetary Aspects of the Development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Common Security and Defence Policy / Alister Miskimmon

8.1. The evolution of the European Union as an international actor

8.2. The impact of the budget review

8.3. Developing the Common Security and Defence Policy

8.4. National security and defence policy cooperation

8.5. Concluding remarks

9. Conclusion: Budget Policy, Past Experience and the Future / Giacomo Benedetto / Simona Milio

9.1. Policy implications for the Multiannual Financial Framework

9.2. Review and previous experience of budgetary agreements

9.3. Future reform

9.4. Possible consequences of the reform

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Index