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Une Union des transferts ? Cela existe depuis bien longtemps !
Le Taurillon 2 Weeks, 2 Days, 4 Hours, 12 Minutes ago
Régulièrement, des médias conservateurs nous mettent en garde contre l'union des transferts bancaires. Avec beaucoup d'insistance, ils jurent que « l'argent de nos impôts » servirait en fait d'autres pays. A travers la réduction de l'Union des...
So where does EU money come from?
Open Europe blog 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 42 Minutes ago
Ahead of our impending paper looking at the effectiveness or otherwise of the EU’s structural funds (watch this space) we came across this timely comment from Hungarian PM Viktor Orban - who has been subject to some (ehum) controversy over recent w...
British Rebate in Jeopardy thanks to David Cameron
The Honeyball Buzz 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 10 Hours, 53 Minutes ago
Joseph Daul, leader of the European People’s Party (EPP), has just told the European Parliament that the rebate Britain receives from the EU must be put into question following David Cameron’s veto last week. David Cameron has certainly...
C’est la crise…. Roulez en Jaguar !
Bruxelles2 2 Months, 1 Week, 7 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
(BRUXELLES2) Les temps sont durs. L’heure est à l’austérité. Mais, apparemment, pas pour tout le monde. La dalle de la Commission européenne – pourtant interdite aux vélos et aux skates – ressemble certains jours –...
Beyond the “pilot era”: the impact of EU funding
Kosmopolito 2 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 2 Hours, 21 Minutes ago
There is one phenomenon that anyone more or less connected with the EU bubble (even loosely, based at local or national level) is quite familiar with: EU-funded projects. They have been around for the last decades and it seems like they are here to s...
Lo que la Unión Europea le supone a España
Mayo Europeo 2 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 11 Hours, 7 Minutes ago
Mikelo | Flickr Cada vez más ciudadanos piensan que formar parte de la Unión Europea no es una buena idea al considerarla responsable de los terribles recortes sociales impuestos en los últimos tiempos. Sin embargo, para defender esta tesis es ne...
Stingy EU 2012 budget: 0.98% of GNI
Grahnlaw 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 5 Hours, 55 Minutes ago
The Autumn 2011 European Economic Forecast from the Commission offers sobering reading about dashed hopes and danger zone entry, but let me pick just a detail. The predicted inflation rate is 3.0 per cent this year and 2.0 per cent in 2012 (against t...
EU: Can expansionary budgets save us from hardship?
Grahnlaw 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 7 Hours, 1 Minute ago
Should Europe spend its way out of gloom and ever slowing growth? Are there real alternatives to the so called austerity measures, actually efforts to reduce government borrowing and eventually total debt to sustainable levels? EU government deficits...
EU Haushaltsverhandlungen: Armes Europa
Helga Trübel (MEP) 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 19 Hours, 43 Minutes ago
Armes Europa Es war eine Marathonsitzung von Freitag morgen 10 Uhr bis Samstag morgen früh um halb 3. Der Rat sitzt [...]...
The next President must call for an end to the European Parliament's costly "travelling circus" - and so must David Cameron
Glenis Willmott (MEP) 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 22 Hours, 35 Minutes ago
This week was another busy week in Strasbourg, Parliament's second seat. Due to a stipulation in the Treaties which govern the European Union, all 736 MEPs and many hundreds of staff members must decamp from Brussels to the Alsatian capital for the P...
Bugetul: primele impresii
Corina Cretu 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 31 Minutes ago
Guvernul a ales cel mai bun moment, pentru guvernanţi, evident, să-şi publice proiectul de buget: la sfârşit de săptămână şi pe fondul scandalului de corupţie care zguduie administraţia Clujului. Deşi ceea ce s-a întâmplat la Cluj este...
Hoy en Génova. IL SOGNO EUROPEO Verso un nuovo fisco per l’Europa.
Salvador Garriga 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 2 Hours, 50 Minutes ago
REALIZZARE IL SOGNO EUROPEO Verso un nuovo fisco per l’Europa.VENERDÌ 11 NOVEMBRE 2011 – ore 15.00Aula Magna dell’Università degli Studi di Genova | via Balbi 5, GenovaSALUTI del Magnifico Rettore dell’Università degli Studi di Genova Giac...
Budget de l’Union 2014-2020 : la Commission dévoile de nouveaux programmes ambitieux en faveur de la santé et des consommateurs
Regards citoyens 2 Months, 4 Weeks, 2 Hours, 32 Minutes ago
  La Commission européenne a adopté le 9 novembre les propositions de programme d’action en faveur de la santé et des consommateurs. Ces deux programmes visent à faire des citoyens européens des individus en bonne santé,...
Ny EU-skandale: Fejludbetalingerne stiger!
Folkebevægelsens Fælles Blog 2 Months, 4 Weeks, 3 Hours, 29 Minutes ago
Milliarder udbetales i strid med reglerne. MEP Søren Søndergaard kræver ansvaret for stigende fejludbetalinger placeret - Nyheder / Tophistorie, Pressemeddelelse, Søren Søndergaard, Budgetkontrol, Budget...
Cardiff's Controversal Court of Auditors nomination
The European Citizen 2 Months, 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 29 Minutes ago
Last week the Irish Department of Finance discovered that it had counted the money borrowed by the Housing Finance Agency, leading it to overstate the Irish Government's debt by €3.6 billion. The Secretary General, Kevin Cardiff was called before a...
The EU Council’s right to initiative? – Less pay for EU officials requested
Ideas on Europe 3 Months, 1 Day, 7 Hours, 15 Minutes ago
Everyone studying the European Union knows that it’s the Commission that proposes legislation. However, this doesn’t say the Commission is always at the origin of such proposals. The Lisbon Treaty for example grants the Council the right...
Dokumentation: “EU hat kein Geld für die EU”
Helga Trübel (MEP) 3 Months, 3 Days, 15 Hours, 1 Minute ago
HAUSHALT Mitgliedstaaten wollen weniger für die Gemeinschaft ausgeben. EU-Parlamentarier wollen mehr und verzichten auf Businessclass-Flüge (Quelle: taz – die [...]...
Bilancio 2012
Debora Serracchiani 3 Months, 5 Days, 11 Hours, 10 Minutes ago
Con il voto relativo al bilancio Ue 2012 (431 a favore, 120 contrari e 124 astensioni) il Parlamento ha deciso di ripristinare il livello di spesa proposto dalla Commissione, dopo i tagli effettuati dal Consiglio a luglio. La posizione del Parlamento...
[2012 Budget] It’s official, the 2012 budget goes to conciliation.
EU Weekly 3 Months, 1 Week, 4 Days, 2 Hours, 56 Minutes ago
It as expected, and the European Council just confirmed it – it almost went un-noticed in the shadow of the saving-the-euro summit - the EU 2012 budget as approved by the European Parliament is not “OK” for the chief of states or gove...
Barroso’s response
Blogactiv 3 Months, 1 Week, 4 Days, 12 Hours, 6 Minutes ago
During the election campaign in Poland four musketeers – Polish Prime Minister Doland Tusk, President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski and Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski – prom...
Today’s European Parliament budget move: a welcome alternative to austerity, or pissing in the wind?
Jon Worth's Euroblog 3 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days, 8 Hours, 59 Minutes ago
The EU institutions are in the middle of their annual budget ping-pong. The European Commission proposes the annual budget, and then the European Parliament and Council of the European Union (where Member States are represented) decide on the budget.
Zahlloser Tiger
Martin Ehrenhauser (MEP) 3 Months, 1 Week, 6 Days, 11 Hours, 32 Minutes ago
Jährlich kontrolliert der Haushaltskontrollausschuss des Europäischen Parlaments im Zuge der Entlastungsverfahren die Ausführung des EU-Haushaltes. Mit großer Mehrheit verweigerte das EU-Parlament heute in Straßburg dem Rat zum zweiten Mal die E...
Beim Geld hört die Freundschaft auf?
Die Euros 3 Months, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 20 Hours, 54 Minutes ago
Während die Regierungen der Eurozone alle Hände voll zu tun haben, die Schuldenkrise in den Griff zu bekommen, laufen in Brüssel die Vorbereitungen für einen weiteren Verhandlungsmarathon. Auf dem Spiel stehen über 1.000 Milliarden Euro - das wi...
Germany biggest net contributer to EU – yes, with 9,25 € per month
kielspratineurope 4 Months, 4 Days, 8 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
Last week several German newspapers came up with news which is not new if you read regularly about European issues. Yes, it was time again to say something about the net contribution of Germany to the European Union. Like others also the FAZ stressed...
The UK and the European Budget (13 October 2011)
The Federal Union blog 4 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 6 Hours, 4 Minutes ago
THE COALITION AND EUROPE AFTER THE HONEYMOON  -  A NEW SERIES OF CONFERENCES 13 OCTOBER  -  THE UK AND THE EUROPEAN BUDGET EUROPE HOUSE, 32 SMITH SQUARE, LONDON SW1P 3EU 2.00 – 5.30 pm followed by a drinks reception In conjunction with the...
EU long-term budget battles
IIEA - Blogosphere 4 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 18 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
Negotiations on the EU's next long-term budget (2014-2020) have begun in earnest. These negotiations have traditionally proved complex and protracted, given the range of competing preferences held by Member States across a spectrum of issues. In t...
En vanlig dag på kontoret...
Henrik-Alexandersson.se 4 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 2 Hours, 40 Minutes ago
Jag slåss just nu med EU-byråkratin. Nio olika uppsättningar blanketter måste hanteras, i en process med minst fem personer inblandade, i tre länder, i minst två rundor - allt detta för att betala tre vanliga, enkla svenska fakturor. Om jag ko...
European integration: Sweden heads rebellion of the rich
Grahnlaw Suomi Finland 4 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 9 Hours, 43 Minutes ago
The blog post Sweden in Europe: EU defence cooperation? started the comparison between the Statement of Government Policy, read by the Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt at the opening of the parliament (Riksdag) 15 September 2011, and reality...
Sverige i Europa: De rika i uppror
Grahnlaw Suomi Finland 4 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 11 Hours ago
I blogginlägget Regeringsförklaringen: Sverige i Europa återgav vi statsminister Fredrik Reinfeldts beskrivningar av regeringens Europapolitik vid riksdagsöppningen. Vi såg att regeringens etiketter gärna kunde förses med mer nyanserad konsu...
The EU travelling circus "among wild animals"
The New Nostradamus of the North 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 7 Hours, 10 Minutes ago
                        "Friends hold a summit among wild animals".In June the Bureau of Investigative Journalism disclosed the la...
Lu sur lemonde.fr
Europe 27etc 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, 4 Hours, 19 Minutes ago
Jacques Delors: “la ‘règle d’or’, c’est un piège à cons”...
PM: EU-Budget – Tauziehen um den EU-Haushalt 2012 beginnt
Helga Trübel (MEP) 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 2 Hours, 43 Minutes ago
Die EU-Kommission hat im April 2011 den EU-Haushaltsvoranschlag für 2012 verabschiedet. Laut Bericht sollen die EU-Ausgaben um 4,9 Prozent gegenüber [...]...
Member states shoot across Commission's bow in budget talks
Open Europe blog 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 6 Hours, 47 Minutes ago
It's unclear whether European Commission is embarrassed by yesterday's rejection, by eight member states, of its 2014-2020 budget proposal (also known as the MFF). But it was certainly sent a stiff message by the biggest net contributors.After talk...
Este “privatizarea” sistemelor de sanatate si educatie o solutie?
Contributors 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 7 Hours, 3 Minutes ago
Iata o intrebare extrem de grea, doresc doar sa lansez in dezbaterea publica aceasta dilema. In contextul crizei economice mondiale, care in loc sa cedeze se adanceste de la o zi la alta, scaderea si eficientizarea cheltuielilor publice ale statelor...
Rikare EU-länder vill hålla igen
Europabloggen 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Days, 3 Hours, 19 Minutes ago
Sverige vill tillsammans med sju andra EU-länder att EU minskar sin budget rejält de kommande åren. Sverige tog på måndagen initiativet att tillsammans med sju andra länder kräva att EU:s nästa långtidsbudget ska minskas rejält. EU-min...
Et grønnere EU-budget – en oplagt mærkesag for Danmark
Europa 3.0 5 Months, 1 Week, 2 Days, 20 Hours, 57 Minutes ago
Efter folketingsvalget går det politiske Danmark et travlt efterår i møde. Men uagtet vigtigheden af de hjemlige politiske begivenheder er der også brug for at kigge fremad. Fra 1. januar næste år står Danmark som bekendt m...
Sarkozy cherche à parler aux marchés sans décevoir ses électeurs
Telos 5 Months, 1 Week, 3 Days, 24 Minutes ago
Une taxe sur le vice, une autre sur la santé, une troisième sur les ultra-riches, un coup de rabot sur les niches et une mini contraction de la dépense publique : telle est la recette trouvée par Nicolas Sarkozy pour rassurer Angela Merkel, calme...
Règle d'or et irresponsabilité politique, par Pascal Jan (Le Monde)
Regards citoyens 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 21 Hours, 16 Minutes ago
L'été est chaud pour les finances publiques françaises, des Etats européens et des Etats-Unis notamment. La solution miracle avancée par tous : la règle d'or. Soit... si les parlementaires français adoptent miraculeusement la révision con...
What does the budget mean?
Common Agricultural Policy 6 Months, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 14 Hours, 48 Minutes ago
Sophia Davidova, president of the Agricultural Economics Society, offers her assessment (reproduced from the AES Newsletter):The Communication from the European Commission on the budget for Europe 2020 is now in the public domain. Does it answer ques...
What future for the CAP financial discipline mechanism?
CAP Health Check 6 Months, 2 Weeks, 6 Days, 23 Hours, 32 Minutes ago
Whether direct payments could still be reduced under the financial discipline mechanism in the 2014-20 period and, if yes, how it would work has still not been clarified by the Commission.
The new EU budget: A missed opportunity
Centre for European Reform 6 Months, 4 Weeks, 8 Hours, 28 Minutes ago
by Stephen TindaleThe European Commission published its proposals for the 2014-2020 EU budget at the end of June. The British media were incensed about proposals for new ‘EU taxes’, a planned nominal rise in EU budget spending at a time of auster...
Bye, bye Young Europe – Commission sacks an independent EU youth programme
kielspratineurope 7 Months, 1 Day, 2 Hours, 6 Minutes ago
Many experts have seen this coming. Now we can read it black on white: the European Commission has presented its proposal for the MFF (Multiannual Financial Framework) 2014 – 2020 (Part I + Part II) and sacks an independent EU youth programme.
Farmers' unions accept CAP budget proposals
Common Agricultural Policy 7 Months, 1 Day, 4 Hours, 17 Minutes ago
Although they are concerned about particular aspects of the CAP budget proposals, such as the flexibility to transfer funds between the two pillars, farmers leaders are unsurprisingly generally satisfied with the deal against a background of fiscal a...
Myths and facts on the EU budget: The EU Commission doesn’t understand politics
Ideas on Europe 7 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days, 11 Minutes ago
The EU Commission has produced a website on “Myths and facts” about the EU budget. Now while some of the myths and facts corrections are just simple detail provisions, others are misleading, simple spin or, what I think, a misunderstandin...
Le budget voyages de la Haute représentante explose
Bruxelles2 7 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 20 Hours, 27 Minutes ago
(BRUXELLES2) Avec les récents déplacements, la Haute représentante aurait consommé presque la totalité de son budget voyages annuel, entre 2/3 et 3/4 selon nos informations, alors que nous sommes à peine à la moitié de l’année. C’...
Budget européen 2011 : nous avons perdu face aux Etats
Presse fédéraliste 8 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 18 Hours ago
Le budget 2011 a été voté au Parlement européen qui a accepté toutes les volontés des Etats qui voulaient un budget limité. Non seulement les Etats ont réussi à retarder le débat sur les ressources propres pour l'Union européenne (UE)… m...
Plafond de la dette atteint : mesures d'urgences aux Etats-Unis
Regards citoyens 8 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 3 Hours, 12 Minutes ago
Le ministère va cesser temporairement d'alimenter autant qu'il le devrait des caisses de retraites de fonctionnaires, écrit le secrétaire au Trésor, Timothy Geithner, dans une lettre adressée au chef de la majorité démocrate au Sénat, Har...
Polizia senza bilancio
Straneuropa 8 Months, 4 Weeks, 17 Hours, 49 Minutes ago
Il parlamento europeo non certifica i conti dell'Accademia europea dei gendarmi, e sospende la decisione per l'Agenzia dei medicinali e per il Consiglio. In ultimo cerca di farla finita con le sessioni a Strasburgo. E' bello sognare...
Budget 2012 : veulent-ils moins d'Europe ?
Le Taurillon 8 Months, 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 18 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
L'année dernière, la France, l'Allemagne et le Royaume-Uni ont proposé de geler les dépenses de l'Union européenne jusqu'en 2020. Le Commissaire au budget, Janusz Lewandowski, l'un des derniers fédéralistes de la Commission Barroso, continue d...
EU-budget och egna medel
Cecilia Malmström Mitt Europa 9 Months, 4 Days, 5 Hours, 31 Minutes ago
Igår eftermiddag och kväll hade vi seminarium med hela kommissionskollegiet för att diskutera den kommande långtidsbudgeten. Om bara två månader ska vi lägga fram ett förslag till rådet och Europaparlamentet och läget är inte direkt optima...
The delicate exercise of the European Budget
EU Weekly 9 Months, 1 Week, 4 Days, 18 Minutes ago
(Version Francaise) The adoption last year of a European budget was not an easy task, the member states, following the lead trio M-C-S (Merkel-Cameron-Sarkozy), refused any significan increase. Since austerity was on the menu un member states, the un...
Cadre financier plurinnuel pour la période 2014 – 2020 / 2 questions centrales : le budget sera-t-il constant ? disposera-t-il de nouvelles ressources ?
Regards citoyens 9 Months, 2 Weeks, 3 Days, 10 Hours, 5 Minutes ago
Concernant le prochain cadre financier pluriannuel, dont la Commission présentera une première proposition le 29 juin, le porte parole de la Commission pour le budget, M. Fiorilli précise que la Commission souhaite mettre sur la table une nég...
EU-parlamentariker vägrar att spara in
EUNyheter 9 Months, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 5 Hours, 36 Minutes ago
På Strasbourgsessionen i april röstade EU-parlamentets majoritet ja till att öka sin budget med 2,3 procent för år 2012. Den föredragande, kristdemokratiske portugisen JM Fernandes, försvarade ökningen med att EU:s nuvarande inflationstakt ä...
Pas d’Europe forte avec un budget faible
Coulisses de Bruxelles (Libération) 9 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 20 Hours, 51 Minutes ago
François Fillon a réaffirmé tout à l’heure à Bruxelles l’engagement européen de la France, seul moyen, selon lui, de peser dans le monde du XXIème siècle. Mais, sans y voir la moindre contradiction, le premier ministre a plaidé dans le..
Retour sur les 'règles nationales budgétaires' adoptées le 11 mars 2011 par les chefs d'Etat ou de gouvernement de la zone Euro
Regards citoyens 9 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 8 Hours, 50 Minutes ago
Lors de leur réunion du 11 mars 2011, les chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement de la zone Euro ont adopté des conclusions dont l'annexe établissant un Pacte pour l'Euro comporte parmi les dispositions relatives à  une coordinat...
Letter from Commission to EP/Council re. EASO premises lease
EASO Monitor 9 Months, 4 Weeks, 6 Hours, 6 Minutes ago
I’m pasting contents of a very interesting letter from Mr. Stefano Maservisi (EU Commission) to Mr. Alain Lamassoure (Chairman of the EP Commitee on Budgets) and Ms. Eszter Kroll (Council Budget Committee President).The letter essentially deals wit...
Para estar al tanto del Presupuesto de la UE
La Oreja de Europa 10 Months, 11 Hours, 35 Minutes ago
Como la cosa va hoy de aclaraciones, hemos pensado que quizá sea de utilidad este enlace que el Parlamento Europeo que pone a disposición  del ciudadano todas las noticias relacionadas con el presupuesto de la UE, explicaciones sobre cómo se...
Finanzierungsdefizit im Kernhaushalt des Bundes
Karpfenteich 10 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 22 Hours, 17 Minutes ago
Das kassenmäßige Finanzierungsdefizit im Kernhaushalt des Bundes – in Abgrenzung der Finanzstatistik – belief sich im Jahr 2010 auf 44,3 Milliarden Euro. Wie das Statistische Bundesamt (Destatis) nach vorläufigen Kassenergebnissen zu d...
Holding governments accountable
Jan's EU-Blog 11 Months, 1 Day, 16 Hours, 48 Minutes ago
The Open Budget Index (OBI) for the year 2010 assessed 94 countries from around the world in terms of their budget openness and accountability. The drive was coordinated by the International Budget Partnership, a Washington DC based independent think...
PM Reinfeldt on Sweden in the EU
Grahnlaw 11 Months, 2 Days, 2 Hours, 14 Minutes ago
Here is just a quick post for those who may be interested in Sweden in the European Union, but may be unaware of the existence of the prime minister's speech and of the English version of it. Today, the prime minister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, ou...
Sveriges miljardrabatt ifrågasatt
Europabloggen 11 Months, 2 Days, 5 Hours, 52 Minutes ago
Under sitt ordförandeskap i EU 2012 kommer Danmark att driva frågan om att få bort de stora rabatter vissa länder har på sin medlemsavgift i EU.Danmark bidrar i dag finansiellt mest av alla länder till EU som en konsekvens av att man inte förh...
Ein europäisches Budget für eine europäische Politik!
Treffpunkt Europa 11 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days, 8 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
Edit Herczog ist Mitglied der Ungarische Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei und der Progressive Allianz der Sozialisten und Demokraten im Europäischen Parlament. Ihrer Meinung nach braucht die Europäische Union ein großes Budget um ihre Aufgaben erfül...
Moneten, Kies und Kröten
Andreas Schieder 11 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days, 10 Hours, 43 Minutes ago
„Was ist ein Budget?“ – diese Frage beantworte ich Kindern von 8 bis 12 Jahren kommenden Sonntag im Zoom Kindermuseum. Mein Besuch ist Teil des Ausstellungsprogramms „Moneten, Kies und Kröten“, bei dem Kinder alles über den Kreislauf des...
Sverige i EU och Europeiska rådet
Grahnlaw Suomi Finland 11 Months, 3 Weeks, 4 Days, 13 Hours, 11 Minutes ago
Medierna talar om EU-toppmöten, och det är nog så de fungerar, men formellt är Europeiska rådet en av Europeiska unionens institutioner – rentav den viktigaste - trots bristerna i öppenhet och god förvaltning. Det handlar visserligen lika my...
A better use for cohesion funding: pan-European projects
Eurobee 11 Months, 4 Weeks, 3 Hours, 13 Minutes ago
Let’s talk about cohesion funds. No, don’t close your eyes. Please try to stay awake: Cohesion funding is a European Union funding tool to support development activities in member states, most notably infrastructure construction. Yawn! Se...
Den europeiska planeringsterminen och EU:s årliga tillväxtöversikt
Grahnblawg 1 Year, 5 Days, 2 Hours, 35 Minutes ago
Stats- och regeringscheferna möts fredagen den 4 februari 2011 i Europeiska rådet. I måndags samlades det förberedande rådet för allmänna frågor. Där företräddes Danmark av utrikesminister Lene Espersen, Finland av migrations- och Europami...
The subsidies dilemma
Common Agricultural Policy 1 Year, 1 Week, 4 Days, 23 Hours, 59 Minutes ago
A farmer writing to Farmers Weekly says of Caroline Spelman's support for phasing out the Single Farm Payment, 'Surely she must realise the subsidy keeps most farmers in business?'The correctness of this view in the short term, for livestock farmers...
Barroso is disengenuous about European Court of Auditors
England Expects 1 Year, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 17 Hours, 42 Minutes ago
Sorry about thism, but having added the film of Marta Andreasen's exchange with Barroso to my previous post, I think it deserves a closer look in a new one.And here I am thinking about Barroso's comments about describing the European Court of Auditor...
Marta calls for action on European Court of Auditors
England Expects 1 Year, 2 Weeks, 5 Days, 19 Hours, 36 Minutes ago
Marta Andreasen is tonight asking the Commission what it plans to do about the revelations given that the UK government refuses to act."The allegations, which come as no surprise to me, pointed essentially to the lack of independence of EU auditors w...
EU budget debate advances
CAP Health Check 1 Year, 4 Weeks, 1 Day, 15 Hours, 40 Minutes ago
The likely size of the EU budget in the next financial perspective period (the length of which still remains to be decided, whether 2013-2000 or 2013-2024) became a little clearer last month with the publication of a letter to the President of the Eu...
EU Budget 2011 adopted
CTA Brussels Weblog 1 Year, 1 Month, 3 Days, 14 Hours, 12 Minutes ago
The European Parliament voted the EU budget 2011 – the first EU budget under the Lisbon Treaty.EUR 126.5 billion in payments have been adopted – an increase by 2.91% in comparison to the 2010 EU budget.With issues such as energy, the environment,...
EU Parliament Adopts EU 2011 Budget
EU Pundit 1 Year, 1 Month, 1 Week, 2 Days, 6 Minutes ago
The EU Parliament adopted the EU 2011 Budget at the European Parliament plenary session 13-16 December 2010.
Budget européen 2011 : nous avons perdu face aux Etats
Le Taurillon 1 Year, 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 4 Days, 19 Hours, 43 Minutes ago
Le budget 2011 a été voté au Parlement européen qui a accepté toutes les volontés des Etats qui voulaient un budget limité. Non seulement les Etats ont réussi à retarder le débat sur les ressources propres pour l'Union européenne… mais e...
Lås inte dålig användning av pengar
Gunnar Hökmark 1 Year, 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 1 Hour, 35 Minutes ago
Förutom diskussionen om den gemensamma stödfonden diskuterade EU-toppmötet även de framtida EU-budgetarna, där ett antal medlemsstater krävde ett beslut nu om att inte öka EU-budgeten fram till 2020. Det är inget fel i det men problemet är a...
EU summit: The British budget letter
Brussels Blog (Financial Times) 1 Year, 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 9 Hours, 19 Minutes ago
On the second and final day of the EU summit, attention turned briefly away from the ongoing eurozone crisis and onto a letter the British government was circulating to get other member states to agree to freezes in the EU’s …Continue rea...
EU Summit: The budget elephant in the room
Brussels Blog (Financial Times) 1 Year, 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 11 Hours, 4 Minutes ago
One of the more mysterious elements of the summit, which is now wrapping up, is the chatter about some of the EU’s big countries looking to cap community spending for up to a decade, as we reported in today’s paper. …Continue readin...
You could get a few rounds in with this
England Expects 1 Year, 1 Month, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 10 Hours, 25 Minutes ago
Just been wiffling through the General Budget of the European Union, as you do on a Saturday morning, and this little item in the Parliament budget caught my eye.Article 3 0 4 — Miscellaneous expenditure on meetings Item 3 0 4 0 — Miscellane...
EU-money to the mafia, the tobacco industry and multinationals?
Watchdog (Brigitte Alfter) 1 Year, 2 Months, 5 Days, 4 Hours, 56 Minutes ago
Journalists have dug out the beneficiaries of EU-farmsubsidies for citizens to see them at Farmsubsidy.org. Now a new team of journalists has dug out the recipients of the other large lump on the EU-budget: The regional funding. In a unique cooperati...
Finanzvermögen der öffentlichen Haushalte in Deutschland
Karpfenteich 1 Year, 2 Months, 6 Days, 5 Hours, 29 Minutes ago
Nach Mitteilung des Statistischen Bundesamtes (Destatis) betrug das Finanzvermögen der öffentlichen Haushalte zum Jahresende 2009 insgesamt 207,4 Milliarden Euro. Gegenüber dem Vorjahr ist dies ein Anstieg um 15,0% oder 27,0 Milliarden Euro. Je...
UK, Netherlands block 2011 EU budget
CTA Brussels Weblog 1 Year, 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 6 Days, 3 Hours, 52 Minutes ago
European Parliament negotiators failed to overcome opposition from the UK and the Netherlands to the 2011 budget yesterday night (15 November), calling into question funding for ambitious projects such as the EU diplomatic service and the ITER nuclea...
Ansvarslöst att driva EU in i en budgetkris
Gunnar Hökmark 1 Year, 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 6 Days, 21 Hours, 59 Minutes ago
Medan gårdagen för min del handlade om möten med kommissionen och det belgiska ordförandeskapet kring telekom och radiospektrum samt överläggningar med företrädare för de olika regeringarnas företrädare på Balkan blev kvällen och förmid...
David Cameron is seeking to appease Tory Eurosceptics rather than doing the Right Thing in Europe
The Honeyball Buzz 1 Year, 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 5 Hours, 12 Minutes ago
Already threatened with splits at home, the coalition government has now turned its attention to the European Union. So what, you may think. Isn’t it always the case that the British make waves, not really signing up to the European programme a...
Those Pesky Parliamentarians
The European Citizen 1 Year, 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Hours, 11 Minutes ago
Tsk. Those parliamentarians, eh? They clearly don't know how politics works; you don't have to pay any attention to the projects you set up or even actually pay for them, you just announce them to great communique-filled media fanfair. If they don't...
Der EU-Haushalt 2011
Karpfenteich 1 Year, 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 13 Hours, 46 Minutes ago
Europäische Union muss im nächsten Jahr womöglich einige Monate lang von der Hand in den Mund leben. Denn die Verhandlungen über den Haushalt 2011 sind gescheitert. Gut denkbar, dass sich die EU zunächst einmal auf Basis von monatlichen Budge...
EU Budget Veto 2011: what, why, and where next?
Centre for European Politics 1 Year, 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 21 Hours, 1 Minute ago
WHAT HAS HAPPENED The EU's annual budget for 2011 was vetoed last night. It is the first time that this happens since 1985 and is due to the European Parliament’s miscalculations in the negotiations on the Lisbon Treaty. Under the Lisbon Treaty...
EU budget vetoed?
Centre for European Politics 1 Year, 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 14 Hours, 38 Minutes ago
The final deadline of midnight on 15 November for agreeing the EU's annual budget for 2011 may have passed. No press release has appeared on the website of the European Parliament or the European Council to indicate otherwise. A Council press confere...
Should the UK contribute to an Irish bailout?
Open Europe blog 1 Year, 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 22 Hours, 8 Minutes ago
The increasingly likely prospect of an Irish bailout is looming and that is also likely to have an impact on the UK.While the UK was not involved in the Greek bailout, British taxpayers are liable for one of the two bailout funds agreed in its afterm...
EP team "disappointed" as negotiations on EU budget are suspended
CTA Brussels Weblog 1 Year, 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 1 Day, 22 Hours, 22 Minutes ago
Negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council on next year's budget were suspended on November 11 after a minority of member states proved unwilling to agree to discussing the way future EU budgets should be financed. In a reaction,...
What do a dog fitness centre, a €5.25m fleet of limousines, a cartoon horse and 'virtual language swimming' have in common?
Open Europe blog 1 Year, 2 Months, 3 Weeks, 6 Days, 20 Hours, 43 Minutes ago
Yep, you've guessed it, it's that time of year again. Today we've published yet another list of wasteful EU projects, the third such list in as many years (you can find the previous ones here and here).One of our favourites is "Eurogaloppo" the carto...
Le Sommet européen a lancé les débats sur le budget à long terme de l’UE
Regards citoyens 1 Year, 3 Months, 2 Days, 20 Hours, 55 Minutes ago
Les tractations à propos du plan de dépenses de l’Union européenne pour 2014-2020 ont débuté lors d’un sommet européen qui s'est tenu les 28 et 29 octobre, la Grande-Bretagne obtenant un soutien considérable pour un budget allég
Das ist keine Antwort auf die Krise!
Le Taurillon 1 Year, 3 Months, 4 Days, 22 Hours, 41 Minutes ago
Am 29. Oktober einigten sich die Regierungschefs und Finanzminister auf Ihre Version einer europäischen Wirtschaftsregierung und weichen damit von den Kommissionsvorschlägen ab. Jetzt kommt es auf das Europaparlament an. - Wirtschaft und Soziales...
More fall out from the Council
England Expects 1 Year, 3 Months, 1 Week, 2 Days, 6 Hours, 20 Minutes ago
Now the comment flows like a torrent about today's capitulation in Brussels. The Telegraph's formal editorial has this to say,Mr Cameron must be firmer. If money is power, then any increase in subsidy represents a transfer of authority to Brussels, o...
Game, set and match to Angela
Charlemagne's notebook (The Economist) 1 Year, 3 Months, 1 Week, 2 Days, 11 Hours, 27 Minutes ago
Germany's chancellor wins the day at a European summit...
While we are increasing the Budget of the EU, we find the the accounts are still dodgy
England Expects 1 Year, 3 Months, 1 Week, 2 Days, 11 Hours, 34 Minutes ago
As everybodies eyes are turned to the European Council and Mr Cameron's self proclaimed victory, I wondered if anything had been slipped out that I should notice, and lo and behold what have we here?It is the European Court of Auditors latest report,...
The EU’s merry budget dance
Jon Worth's Euroblog 1 Year, 3 Months, 1 Week, 2 Days, 14 Hours, 15 Minutes ago
The British press has been making a big thing of negotiations on the 2011 EU budget for the past couple of days. David Cameron was apparently telephoning EU leaders yesterday, and on the eve of today’s summit claimed victory that the budget wou...
Everybody wins in Brussels?
Gulf Stream Blues 1 Year, 3 Months, 1 Week, 2 Days, 14 Hours, 55 Minutes ago
The European leaders are exiting the Just Lips building now, and they are all smiles. To hear them tell it, everybody got what they wanted out of yesteray's horse-trading in the Autumn European Council. Merkel and Sarkozy got their eurozone treaty ch...
EU summit: The morning after
Brussels Blog (Financial Times) 1 Year, 3 Months, 1 Week, 2 Days, 17 Hours, 30 Minutes ago
Day one of the EU heads of government summit may have broken up after 1 a.m., but European officials were already up early Friday to conduct their regular post-mortem of the drawn out fight from the night before. At a breakfast with reporters, Jose M...