We analyze whether there is a relationship between EU Commissioners' national origin and political outcomes. For this purpose, we argue that examining the Commissioner for Agriculture allows the most precise empirical identification: there is a specific budget for agriculture which accounts for...

The European Union (EU) programme, Europe for Citizens (EFC), aims at encouraging direct participation of citizens at EU level and promoting dialogue between the EU institutions, civil society organisations and municipalities. The programme has been running since 2004. For the 2014-20 period the...

We demonstrate that the nationalities of EU Commissioners influence budget allocation decisions in favor of their country of origin. Our focus is on the Commissioners for Agriculture, who are exclusive responsible for a specific fund that accounts for the largest share of the overall EU budget....

This analysis looks at main issues in contention, in addition to the proposals of the leading players to show the current state of the negotiations and the challenges facing the Cypriot EU Presidency, whose aim is to reach an agreement on the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for 2014-2020...

What share of the EU's collective GDP should the EU budget represent? 1%? 1.05%? 0.95%? A Task Force set up by CEPS to explore this question finds that the EU member states, once again, are locked in a pointless battle. Their report argues that the amount is not decisive when it comes to EU...

This open access book delivers a much-needed analysis of the relationship between the EU's financial constitution and European integration.The economic rescue package NextGenerationEU has multiplied the EU's financial volume and thereby raised the question of the state of European integration...

This report covers the 2007-2013 and 2014-2020 programming periods. For the 2007-2013 programming period, the implementation report deals with all the funds under Heading 1b 'Cohesion policy' of the financial framework: the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Social Fund...