Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214443 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CREMA Working Paper No. 2009-16
Publisher: 
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel
Abstract: 
There is little disagreement that the EU budget should be refocused. Redistributive agricultural and structural spending should be reduced in favour of more public good spending as the Boege and Sapir reports demand. But a public choice analysis can show that the current deadlock makes a refocusing of the budget unlikely. Starting with the Treaty of Rome we demonstrate how Member States became net payers and receivers and why the underlying coalitions were fairly stable and will remain so after Lisbon. We propose an additional public good budget within an improved process of enhanced cooperation to overcome the deadlock.
JEL: 
H31
D78
H87
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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