About: EU budget 2014-2020 Archives
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European Parliament launches ‘own resources’ group
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, European Parliament President Martin Schulz and Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras kicked off the European Parliament's 'own resources' group on Tuesday in Strasbourg. Chaired by former prime minister of Italy, Mario Monti, the High level he group has been tasked with studying the current system of income to the EU budget and suggesting possible improvements to it, as agreed by the institutions during negotiations on the EU's seven-year budget.
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European Parliament kicks off ‘own resources’ group
The current leaders of the three main EU institutions launched yesterday (25 February) a high-level group on EU "own resources" to be chaired by the former prime minister of Italy, Mario Monti.
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EURACTIV’s most popular stories of 2013
As 2013 comes to a close, EURACTIV looks back at the stories that had the biggest impact and were mostly widely shared on social media.
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S&P spoils the show at EU leaders’ summit
Standard & Poor's cut its long-term credit rating on the European Union budget to AA-plus from AAA on Friday (20 December), dealing a blow to EU leaders who had congratulated themselves the day before for agreeing the last elements of their banking union plans.
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EU ministers give farm policy final political seal
EU ministers gave their final political approval today (16 December) for the Common Agricultural Policy, which sets out the European Union's farming strategy for 2014-2020.
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Parliament gives final approval to EU long-term budget
After months of complex negotiations, the European Parliament finally approved the EU’s budget for 2014-2020 yesterday (19 November). The budget regulation was approved by 537 votes to 126, with 19 abstentions. The accompanying Inter-Institutional Agreement was approved by 557 votes to 118, with 11 abstentions.
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Parliament approves EU’s 2014-2020 budget
After one of the most controversial and long-fought battles the European Parliament has recently seen, MEPs finally approved on Tuesday Europe's budget for the next 7 years.
The so-called multi-annual financial framework was adopted by 537 votes to 126 against, with most of the opposition coming from the eurosceptics and the Greens.
Worth €960 billion, it is the first time in the history of the Union that real spending cuts are included in a long-term budget. -
EU budget passes last hurdles
The European Parliament’s budget committee approved yesterday (14 November) the EU’s 2014-2020 budget, opening the way for a vote in plenary next week so that it can enter into force on 1 January 2014.
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EU reaches agreement on long term health budget
The EU has approved its public health programme for 2014-2020, which focuses mainly on reducing health inequalities and encouraging innovation in the sector.
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EU agrees on 2014 budget
After 16 hours of negotiations, the EU institutions reached a political agreement on Tuesday on both the Union's budget for 2014 and pending amending budgets for 2013, but the European Parliament and Council must still formally adopt the agreement. The deal sees an overall level of commitments of €142.6 billion
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Late night deal seals 2014 EU budget
The EU institutions reached a political agreement today (12 November) on both the Union's budget for 2014 and pending amending budgets for 2013. Both the European Parliament and Council must still formally adopt the agreement.
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Commission claws back up to €200 million broadband funding in budget breakthrough
SPECIAL REPORT / The EU executive hailed victory in winning back vital funding for its European broadband funding rollout programme following trilogue talks last week that saw up to €200 million in spending secured over the 2014-2020 budget period.
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Tight EU budgets usher in new era of efficient spending, innovative finance
SPECIAL REPORT / When there is less money, the only way to cope is to spend it better and more efficiently. This is the age-old principle behind Brussels' approach to the next EU budget, for 2014-2020.
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Revamped cohesion policy agreed after one year of negotiations
After more than a year of negotiations with the Commission and EU ministers, a Parliament committee has agreed a deal on the EU’s cohesion policy for 2014-2020, paving the way for the €325 billion investment tool for the EU's poor regions to come into force in time, before the end of the year.
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Blending funds will be the new way to finance EU projects
With less money at hand, the EU will have to become more efficient and innovative in the way it seeks to finance new initiatives and blend funds from different sources, but will actors be able to quickly align to this new way of thinking, asks Mercedes Sánchez Varela.
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Audit report shows errors in ‘all main spending areas’ of EU budget
The error rate on EU budget spending was almost 5% in 2012, according to the annual report by the European Court of Auditors, published on Tuesday (5 November).
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Next EU budget should put value for money first
European and national parliaments will need to work more closely together in their scrutiny of public spending, to ensure EU money gets to the right people at the right time, and is spent on the right things, writes Vitor Caldeira.
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Budget Games
The Commission and the Council take advantage of the traditional EU decision-making lack of transparency to play “budget games” with the Parliament. But MEPs want to see all cards on the table for the EU public to see, writes Ivailo Kalfin.
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MEPs reverse approved budget cuts for 2014
Hours before EU leaders are due to meet in Brussels, the European Parliament may have reignited a long-standing battle by voting on Wednesday (23 October) to increase the EU's 2014 budget by €1.3 billion next year, despite national leaders having agreed to cuts.
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EU’s long-term budget bedeviled by details
As member states bickered over details, MEPs yesterday (17 October) postponed a vote on the 2014-2020 EU budget for the November session, raising doubts about the implementation of the €960 billion package by the planned 1 January 2014 deadline.
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EU spending: Added value through cooperation
Does one euro spent at the EU level bring more benefits than if it’s spent at the national or regional level? This is a question that will dominate in the coming months as policymakers try once more to make the case to increase the EU’s own resources and redraft the funding map to boost sustainable growth and jobs.
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EU’s overseas aid corps faces its own budget hurdle
A plan to deploy European volunteers to respond to global humanitarian and natural disasters became a victim itself when EU leaders slashed funding for the foreign aid corps, but Lithuania wants to press ahead with a programme it sees as a priority of its EU presidency.
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Study shows EU spending can save taxpayers money
Taxpayers and European governments would reap substantial savings if more resources were pooled at the EU level, says a new study that also examines spending on defence and diplomacy.
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De Geus: Better spending will preserve the EU social market model
Ahead of the launch of a study on the added value of EU spending, Bertelsmann Stiftung chairman and chief executive Aart De Geus points at the savings EU member states could achieve if they pooled and distributed resources more efficiently, for example in diplomatic and defence services.