Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/286616 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] CES Working Papers [ISSN:] 2067-7693 [Volume:] 11 [Issue:] 4 [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 285-301
Publisher: 
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Centre for European Studies, Iasi
Abstract: 
The central challenge for the Union's future is the overcoming of economic, social and territorial inequalities among its Member States. With the next MFF, there is an opportunity to make the Union's system of 'own resources' less regressive and more equitable. Progressivity in the financing of EU policies with redistributive effects could be introduced by combining progressive coefficients, national co-financing, and other automatic progressive stabilizers. This would ensure that solidarity becomes a matter of the rule of law and not of governance through conditionalities and fines. Unless the EU undertakes an effective reform of the financing of its redistributive policies to ensure that progressivity and solidarity in the EU become a matter of the rule of law, the Union will bear less and less resemblance to a democracy and will increasingly look like an empire with an economically stronger and more rapidly developing 'core' and an economically weaker 'periphery' in the East and the South, lagging behind the 'core'.
Subjects: 
Multiannual Financial Framework
EU solidarity
rule of law
cohesion policy
progressivity
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