The next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and the Unity of EU budget

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Series Details November 2017
Publication Date November 2017
ISBN 978-92-846-1637-4
EC QA-02-17-995-EN-N
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Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.The traditional issues of European budgetary negotiations are the size of the budget, the distribution of funds and the system of own resources. Under difficult circumstances, the negotiations on the new MFF post-2020 will start in 2018 and should be concluded by the end of 2019 or no later than the beginning of 2020.

The unity of the EU budget is a cornerstone of European budgetary policy. However, a complete unity of all revenue and expenditure, and all financial instruments has not yet been achieved. Today the budgetary system is characterised by differentiation, fragmentation and increased use of ‘satellite’ instruments, and debates on additional financial instruments, like a budget for the Eurozone.

The question of how to integrate these instruments into the Union’s budget system and thus guaranteeing democratic scrutiny, should be an additional issue of the negotiations on the MFF post-2020.

External author: Dr. Peter Becker

Source Link http://dx.publications.europa.eu/10.2861/881218
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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, November 2017: The next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and the Unity of EU budget http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/603796/IPOL_IDA(2017)603796_EN.pdf
ESO: Key Source: Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 http://www.europeansources.info/record/multiannual-financial-framework-2014-2020/

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