Taxation & Budget

Parliament's position on the 2011 draft budget

The EU budget is the Union's central overarching policy instrument deciding on expenditure in domains as varied as subsidies...

Investing in the future: a new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for a competitive, sustainable and inclusive Europe

The EU budget will remain one of the most hotly debated EU issues for years to come.

Every seven years, the EU...

The Commission's fifth Cohesion Report and the strategy for post-2013 cohesion policy

The EU's cohesion policy is designed to reduce disparities between different EU Member States and their regions. Its main...

Recommendations of the EU Parliament against the economic crisis

Immediately after the collapse of the US bank Lehman Brothers in 2009, when the financial crisis started spreading across...

Granting an EU guarantee to the EIB against losses under loans and guarantees for projects outside the EU

In 2008, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that the European Parliament must have a say on the foreign investment...

Parliament's position on the 2012 draft budget

The EU budget is the Union's central overarching policy instrument for deciding on expenditure in various domains.

In...

The impact of the financial crisis on the defence sector

Although military expenditure by the Member States has fallen since the start of the crisis, the corresponding budget cuts...

International succession and creation of a European Certificate of Succession

Fighting harmful tax competition through a common corporate tax base

Today, companies operating in different European countries can benefit from differences in legislation to reduce the taxes...

A European financial transaction tax

Levying a taxing on financial transactions is a good way of curbing some forms of financial speculation.

It also...

European Social Fund

The European Social Fund (ESF) is the EU's most important tool for implementing social and labour market policies, domains...

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2013

In the Council, the Member States were very eager to cut EU budget expenditure.

They ignored the fact that the EU is...

The European Union Solidarity Fund, implementation and application

The European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) was established in 2002 after devastating floods in Central Europe.

Since...

National and regional economic statistics

Good policy-making requires good information.

Especially in times of economic crisis, it is important to closely...