Eu budget

NRPPs and lessons from the RRF delivery model: long-term EU resilience and social cohesion in the context of demographic challenges

Guntram B. Wolff

Financing the EU budget: an assessment of five proposals for new resources

Four of five new European Union budget ‘own resources’ proposed by the European Commission should go ahead with changes; the fifth should be scrapped

Zsolt Darvas and Roel Dom

Hungary’s future

How Hungary’s historic election changes the EU and the economic outlook

Rebecca Christie, Zsolt Darvas and Heather Grabbe

To what extent should regional EU funding be conditional on national reforms?

Zsolt Darvas

National plans, regional voices: cohesion policy in the next European Union budget

NRPPs could raise the EU added value of the 2028–34 budget, but reform conditions and decision-making must better reflect regional needs

Zsolt Darvas, Marie-Sophie Lappe, Bo Sangers and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

The link between the European Semester and the next EU budget

Zsolt Darvas

Europe’s looming budget fight

The EU Parliament’s Johan Van Overtveldt and Bruegel's Zsolt Darvas lay out the two years of tough talks ahead

Rebecca Christie, Zsolt Darvas and Johan Van Overtveldt

Can the Dutch tail wag the EU budgetary dog?

A new pro-European government in the Netherlands could set a beneficial example by departing from traditional Dutch stinginess on the EU budget

Roel Beetsma and Marco Buti

The European Parliament gets it wrong on the European Commission’s 2028-2034 budget

Rather than protecting outdated programmes, MEPs should push for a larger EU budget and safeguards to match strategic goals

Marco Buti

What should Europe pay for?

The EU’s next seven-year budget grapples with agriculture, defence and public goods

Rebecca Christie, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard and Zsolt Darvas

CORE concerns: why a turnover-based levy is wrong for the EU budget

A plan to raise EU revenues from companies benefitting from the single market would create risks and distortions, and should be withdrawn

Zsolt Darvas, Roel Dom and Marie-Sophie Lappe

EU budget proposal: right priorities, too little ambition

European Commission proposals for the next multiannual EU budget contain some good ideas but fall far short of the needed radical rethink

Zsolt Darvas

European Union fiscal rules: it’s already time to reform the reform

The EU should tweak its recent fiscal rule reform, capitalising on new realities to make improvements

Lucio Pench