300% interest – in the EU it is legalAs most of you will know by now, the European Commission has asked the UK to pay an extra £1.7bn surcharge into this year’s EU budget – before December 1. David Cameron has said he won’t pay anything “near that amo…
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March 19, 2014
It’s that time of year again. Chancellor George Osborne has delivered his latest budget. The EU geeks that we are, we have one question in mind: what does it say about the UK’s contributions to the EU budget?Well, as ever, this is complicated because t…
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October 16, 2013
As you may have noticed, yesterday saw numerous governments across Europe unveiling their latest budgets for the coming year. Rather than just being a coincidence, this is down to the fact that yesterday was the deadline for eurozone governments to sub…
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budget, budgetary discipline, European Commission, eurozone, ireland, italy, Portugal, six pack |
November 23, 2012
We’ve got our hands on a leaked copy of the latest HermanVan Rompuy (HvR) proposal for the EU budget (see here for the full doc). The headline spending figure remains broadly unchanged in the new proposal, standing at €1,014bn (a €4bn increase), …
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2014-2020 MFF, budget, CAP, commission, EU budget, EU budget rules, EU summit, Herman Van Rompuy, UK rebate, UK; |
November 21, 2012
Confused by the various figures flying around in the EU budget talks? When is a freeze a freeze and not an increase etc? Don’t feel bad, everyone is confused. There are a number of ways to calculate the increase or otherwise in the EU budget, dependi…
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September 27, 2012
We’re still waiting for the full breakdown and figures behind the Spanish budget (which we will analyse and post in due course) but in the meantime here are our initial thoughts:The decision to tap the pension/social security reserve fund for €3bn …
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austerity, budget, budgetary discipline, eurozone, eurozone crisis, pensions, Spain, Spanish bailout, spending, tax |
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