EU budget
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European Union: ‘EU Commission frets over deficit of billions’
28 March 2013140 4PresseuropDie Welt -
EU budget: Negotiations to begin between member states and MEPs
14 March 201399 1PresseuropAdevărul -
Czech Republic: ‘Nečas cut farmers’ euro-subsidies more than he needed’
13 March 201312 1PresseuropHospodářské Noviny -
EU budget: MEPs set their conditions
11 March 201344 4PresseuropEUobserver.com -
EU budget: Françoise-Antoinette
12 February 2013228 The Times London -
Editorial: Budget and democracy
11 February 201354 21Presseurop -
EU budget: The European Union has been paralysed
11 February 2013260 124 Les Echos Paris -
EU budget: An austerity budget cooked in German-British sauce
11 February 201349 16PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna, Die Welt, El País -
European Union: ‘European budget: infrastructure projects abandoned’
11 February 201336 1PresseuropLes Echos -
EU budget: The tap is frozen
8 February 201369 Kleine Zeitung Graz -
EU budget: A convoluted compromise
8 February 2013329 43PresseuropTrouw, Le Monde, El País, Die Welt -
European Council: ‘Wealthy countries try to impose the most restrictive budget’
8 February 201332 10PresseuropEl País -
European Council: ‘The last such budget’
8 February 201320 9PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
European Council: The selfishness waltz
7 February 2013246 35 Le Monde Paris -
European Council: ‘Discord among net donors’
7 February 201334 1PresseuropDie Presse -
Poland: ‘Van Rompuy’s Purse’
7 February 201320 1PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Portugal: ‘Passos asks Brussels for more than €900m for agriculture’
7 February 201323PresseuropPúblico -
EU budget: Roads in Brussels are paved with gold
5 February 201394 4PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna, Die Welt, EUobserver.com -
Structural funds: Let Brussels manage our development projects
5 February 2013136 33 Dilema Veche Bucharest -
European Union: ‘The mighty money market’
5 February 201315 7PresseuropBerlingske Tidende -
European Union: ‘New EU budget rules out further cuts for Poland’
22 January 201322PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
EU-funds: Spending still hard to control
8 January 2013433 7 De Standaard Brussels -
Economy: America’s European moment
4 January 201382 5PresseuropThe Economist -
Economy: Merkel shepherds us away from the fiscal cliff
3 January 2013165 50 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam -
European Union: A budget for 2013, but still not enough money
13 December 201249 4PresseuropFinancial Times, EUobserver.com -
European Union: Herman the Jedi
6 December 201247 L’Echo Brussels -
Editorial: Every man for himself
30 November 201241 17Presseurop -
Youth: Let’s create an employment Erasmus scheme!
29 November 2012870 65 Les Echos Paris -
EU budget: Scrap the CAP
27 November 2012373 38 The Guardian London -
EU budget: Herman the poet
26 November 201223 Cicero Berlin -
EU budget: Britain’s bluster serves the eurozone well
26 November 2012100 16 Financial Times London -
EU Budget: Rubbery figures
23 November 201221 The Guardian London -
The front page: 23 November 2012
23 November 201219PresseuropLa Razón, Die Presse, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna & 4 others -
European Council: Major confusion over EU budget
22 November 2012142 45PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph, Público, El País & 4 others -
EU budget: Maximum spending, minimum gain
22 November 201266 81 Der Standard Vienna -
EU Budget: The collection
22 November 201268 Le Monde Paris -
EU Budget: Another Ponta and Băsescu face-off over Brussels
20 November 201237PresseuropAdevărul -
United Kingdom: EU exit would lead to less sovereignty, not more
20 November 2012197 40 The Observer London -
The front page: 19 November 2012
19 November 201214PresseuropKleine Zeitung, Financial Times, La Tribune & 4 others -
Editorial: A budget for 7 years
16 November 201247 6Presseurop -
EU Budget: Bargaining set to go to the wire
14 November 201276 19PresseuropJyllands-Posten, El Mundo, Gazeta Wyborcza, La Stampa -
Profile: Olli Rehn, austere guardian of budgetary discipline
9 November 201288 22 Les Echos Paris -
EU Budget: Grazing away at billions of euros
7 November 201254 4PresseuropTrouw, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
EU Budget: The real test for Britain in the EU
2 November 2012109 69 The Daily Telegraph London -
EU budget: A tale of three Europes
11 October 2012112 35 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Looking Ahead: 2012 cannot be worse than 2011
3 January 2012101 14 Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
EU Budget: Brussels tightens belt
21 November 201134 3PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Poland: Mini-Marshall Plan “unfair and divisive”
2 August 20111PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Eurozone crisis: Euro – a right-wing dream gone wrong
13 July 2011851 11 The Guardian London -
Editorial: Greek myths and EU budgets
1 July 201144 1Presseurop
A EU without a vision of the future, turned in on itself, divided, deaf and blind to the world it lives in: this is the face of Europe emerging in the wake of the “impoverished” budget agreement hammered out by the 27 on February 8.
The leaders of the European Union have managed to save face thanks to the Byzantine wording of the compromise agreement they have found for the 2014-2020 EU budget. The austerity measures adopted, however, could be difficult to implement, notes the European press. 
The EU's 27 leaders are now meeting to discuss the European Union's 2014-2020 budget and will probably reach an agreement. But they will do so by making the usual petty deals that compromise the future, warns Le Monde. 
Structural funds for 2014-2020 are at the top of the agenda of the European Council meeting on February 7-8. Management of these development projects is left to member states but Romanian journalist Ovidiu Nahoi suggests it may be time to hand over responsibility to the EU Commission. 
Despite all the promises of transparency, European funds are still being used improperly by companies and member states, while fraud and misuse remain difficult to detect and rarely punished. 
The last minute negotiations in Washington to avoid a budget shortfall show that short-termism is well grounded in US politics. And by contrast, it shows that despite her controversial handling of the euro crisis, the German chancellor is wise enough to instead push for long-term solutions. 
The financial crisis has left behind 14 million young Europeans with neither employment nor training, yet nobody is mentioning them in the talks over the EU budget. What if a little money was spent on bringing them into the world of work through the Union, wonders a French consultant. 
The Common Agricultural Policy was one of the contentious points of the last week’s EU summit. In the midst of an economic crisis, how can we join the French and defend spending €50 billion on a policy that benefits wealthy landowners and does nothing to protect the environment, rages ecology columnist George Monbiot. 
The EU leaders' failure to find an agreement on the budget is largely symbolic as negotiations concern only a very small part of the Union’s wealth. More important to the EU’s future is the efficiency of the single market and relations between the countries inside and outside the currency bloc. 
Meeting in Brussels for an extraordinary European Council summit, Europe’s leaders are to about to outline the EU’s budget for years to come in an atmosphere that has already been marked by threats of a veto from various countries. The European press examines the bargaining process and attempts to identify the probable winners and losers. 
The EU spends a third of its budget to try to narrow the gap between rich and poor in Europe. Despite the billions from Brussels, though, the poorer countries have not caught up. Could the 27 please rethink that when they discuss the EU budget? 
As a poll shows 56% of Britons in favour of a straight EU exit, the British Sunday newspaper argues that the consequences of such a withdrawal would be dire. 
How is the EU to be funded from 2014 to 2020? This is the issue to be settled at the European Council summit on 22 and 23 November. The European press reports that EU member states, which seem to be mainly concerned with their national interests, are far from agreement. 
Popular in his home country of Finland and much feared elsewhere in Europe, the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs maintains a low profile. However, with the introduction of new supervisory rules for budgets, his emerging role as a key player in Europe’s economic governance will make it difficult for him to avoid the limelight. 
On October 31, Eurosceptic conservatives and Labour joined forces to push through an amendment calling for a cut in the EU budget. The vote marked a major defeat for PM David Cameron who could be cornered in a intransigent position that will be difficult to maintain in the coming negotiations. But it is a risk worth taking, argues the conservative Daily Telegraph. 
Three parallel Europes inhabit the EU, each with its own goals. And the single budget, which used to unite them, is increasingly a source of division and, in the long run, will be unsustainable. 
2011 was such a bad year for Europe that 2012 can only be an improvement. However, Gazeta Wyborcza columnist Jacek Pawlicki points out that the European Union is now threatened by social tensions prompted by measures that enabled it to survive an unprecedented crisis. 
With the very existence of the euro is in question, an American economist points out the fundamental difference between the single currency and the EU: while the former is the fruit of a right-wing political project, the latter stems from a project for solidarity between nations. The death of one does not mean the death of another. - 1 of 2
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