The next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and the its flexibility

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.This briefing note provides some reflections on the challenges facing the next Multi-Annual Financial Framework (MFF) and discusses ways to enhance the flexibility of the EU budget. An analysis of the use of existing flexibility provisions in the current MFF is followed by some recommendations on how to enhance flexibility in the post-2020 MFF.

External author: Dr Eulalia Rubio

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, November 2017: The next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and the its flexibility http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2017/603799/IPOL_IDA(2017)603799_EN.pdf

ESO: Key Source: Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 http://www.europeansources.info/record/multiannual-financial-framework-2014-2020/

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