A Better EU Budget

Germany finances 20 of the EU budget but receives only 12 of EU spending.

The EU budget should facilitate such transfers in the eurozone, using structural funds.

To be sure, the EU budget contains flexible instruments, such as the EU Solidarity Fund, which provides emergency assistance after natural disasters.

The EU budget is an investment vehicle that boosts economic growth and creates jobs.

The EU budget leverages investment, allows for economies of scale, and cannot run a deficit.

This framework would reduce incentives for using annual EU budget negotiations to advance political agendas.

The EU stresses the need for general disarmament.

The net contributors to the EU budget were the ones who stood to lose the most.

Within days of the votes, they failed to agree on the EU budget for 2007 13.

But the EU budget has already enabled an indirect form of leveraging the European Commission s use of implicit budget guarantees to raise capital on financial markets.

These courts have their own budget, which is annexed to the general State budget.

For example, some leveraging of the budget could be allowed, although this would spark controversy, given that EU treaties require that the budget remains balanced at all times.

Ireland has benefited disproportionately from EU largesse during its 35 years of membership, and, in 2008, was still receiving a net sum of 500 million from the EU budget.

While all EU leaders have advocated using the budget to stimulate economic growth, little action is being taken.

Abbreviations RB, regular budget GS (PL), General Service (Principal level) GS (OL), General

Abbreviations RB, regular budget XB, extrabudgetary ASG, Assistant Secretary General GS, General Service.

Indeed, although European governments have agreed to encourage faster absorption of EU funds in crisis countries, they have refused to pay into the EU budget to enable the funds disbursement.

Ireland has been a major beneficiary of EU subvention since joining in 1973, and, in 2007, it was still receiving a net total of 500 million from the EU budget.

Not all member states contribute equally to the EU budget some are net contributors, while others are net beneficiaries.

The next major reform is expected for 2014, when a new long term EU budget is coming into effect.

One Budget Assistant, national General Service staff (new post).

For the first time, security related research figures prominently in the EU budget, with 1.4 billion earmarked for this purpose.

a Regular budget positions as proposed by the Secretary General.

Once again, short term national interests are taking precedence over the need for a forward looking, flexible, and efficient EU budget.

The budget text clarifies which programme activities fall under the General Fund, and which fall under the project budget component.

The Secretary General proposes four additional regular budget posts, as follows

Third, member states should not cut the EU budget indiscriminately during negotiations on the Union's long term spending plan for 2014 2020.

Such leveraging of the EU budget would complement the recently established European Stabilization Mechanism (the successor to the EFSM) and the MTFA.

Similarly, Greece will lose its sovereignty insofar as the EU will now directly control all budget relevant decisions of the Greek government.

The next challenge for China s leadership is to establish better mechanisms for ratification and approval of the overall budget, which comprises the general public budget, the government fund budget, and the budget for state owned capital.

Abbreviations RB, regular budget XB, extrabudgetary GS (OL), General Service (Other level) GS (PL), General Service (Principal level).

Abbreviations RB, regular budget XB, extrabudgetary GS (PL), General Service (Principal level) GS (OL), General Service (Other level).

Abbreviations RB, regular budget XB, extrabudgetary GS (PL), General Service (Principal level) GS (OL), General Service (Other level).

And, at the most recent EU summit, leaders agreed to commit at least 20 of their entire common budget to climate related spending.

The programme budget is funded mainly from special purpose funds (earmarked voluntary funds) and the support budget from general purpose voluntary contributions.

His delegation recalled that the General Assembly approved the Organization's regular budget, the budget of the two International Tribunals and the huge peacekeeping budget after they had been fully discussed.

Abbreviations RB, regular budget XB, extrabudgetary USG, Under Secretary General ASG, Assistant Secretary General GS, General Service PL, Principal level OL, Other level.

This contradiction signals that national interests continue to prevail in EU budget negotiations, which are often exploited for domestic political gain in member states.

Today, no official figure on the budget deficit in 1999, the year on which the EU based its decision about Greece s entry, is available.

Thus, only bilateral help seems possible, perhaps coordinated by the EU and coupled with strong supervision of the Greek budget and Greece s statistical office.

European leaders must therefore substantially increase research funding when the EU budget is next due for revision in 2008 and 2009. Although the core financial burden will be on the member states, the EU level can make an important contribution.

By end January 2005, vacant General Service posts amounted to 416 regular budget posts.

(a) To review the budget of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) and make recommendations to the General Assembly for approval of its budget

Greece is the second largest defense spender, relative to GDP, in the EU clearly, in today s economic climate, savings here could provide hugely welcome budget relief.