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November 5, 2010
In an interview with the FT, Nick Clegg today declared that the Coalition Government would not use the negotiations over a new EU treaty to repatriate powers from Brussels to London. “We are not going to reopen this issue of the repatriation of powers….
October 18, 2010
It is hard to think of a better example of how not to run a large-scale infrastructure project than the EU’s Galileo satellite system. In a new briefing we set out the latest cost over-runs and delays to a project that is now expected to be completed a…
October 14, 2010
EU institutions and member states are warming up for the negotiations on the post-2013 EU budget, which are just around the corner. French MEP Alain Lamassoure, who chairs the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets, said yesterday that national gov…
August 24, 2010
Over the last few days a story first picked up on EUobserver, then Austrian daily Wirtschafts Blatt and again today on Euractiv looks at the future of EU cohesion (also referred to as regional or structural) policy in the upcoming EU budget negotiation…
August 20, 2010
A lot of attention has been paid in recent weeks to the European Parliament-funded virtual reality experience, Citzalia, which recreates life in the Parliament online.As its weblog states, it is “a role playing game and social networking forum wrapped …
August 16, 2010
The media reported last week that EU member states have agreed to push for €3.6 billion worth of “cuts” to the EU budget for 2011, bringing the new total figure to €126.6 billion.The BBC highlighted the news with the headline, “EU budget plans for …
December 10, 2009
Last week, we were told by journalists that Dirk Ahner, the Commission’s Director-General for regional policy, had apparently sent a letter to the members of the European Parliament’s Budgetary Control committee, criticising Open Europe’s 50 examples o…
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31513, English, environment, EU budget, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU waste, European Commission, Financial Services, Structural Funds |
December 2, 2009
Within the next year, the UK Government (whoever it will be) will find itself in crucial negotiations over the next EU ‘financial framework’, which will decide who pays what into the EU budget over the period 2014 to 2020.You will remember that Tony Bl…
November 13, 2009
On EUobserver today, Open Europe spells out in some more detail what we consider to be wrong with the EU’s budget and how it should be reformed. The piece is a response to Commissioner Siim Kallas’ article on the same site a few days ago. We argue,The …
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English, EU budget, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU waste, regional funding, Structural Funds, Taxation |
October 23, 2009
A paper floated by the Commission proposes to give the EU budget a more sensible focus – away from the current Byzantine arrangement in which subsidies are dished out to farmers and non-farmers alike and a range of ludacrious projects in richer member…
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English, EU budget, EU Priorities and Opinion, EU waste, European Commission, Financial Services, Structural Funds, Taxation |
