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How to Reform the EU Budget? A Multidisciplinary Approach

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The European Commission is currently drafting a proposal for a review of the EU budget, which could lead to its most significant reform to date. This paper proposes a method for restructuring the EU budget, based on a multidisciplinary approach. The insights of public sector economics, fiscal federalism, political science and the literature on the concept of “subsidiarity†are combined to assess which policies should be funded by the EU budget, and by how much. The resulting four complementary analyses are brought together into an eight-step chart, which is used to analyze in detail one area of policymaking - education policies – to assess whether it should be funded by the EU budget. Extending the analysis to the budget as a whole, the paper finds that the EU budget should be shared into five areas, each corresponding to an EU objective: economic growth, sustainable development, convergence of the EU economies, external security and internal security.

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  • F. Figueira, 2008. "How to Reform the EU Budget? A Multidisciplinary Approach," Working Papers 08-07, Utrecht School of Economics.
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    2. Andrii Boiar, 2019. "Optimizing the Structure of the European UnionBudget Expenditure," Prague Economic Papers, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2019(3), pages 348-362.

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    EU budget; European Union; fiscal federalism; subsidiarity; EU competences; Ordered by external client;
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