European Union Budget Reform

Chapter 1 Introduction: A History of the European Union Budget and the Possibilities for Reform

Chapter 2 Negotiations of the European Union Budget: How Decision Processes Constrain Policy Ambitions

Chapter 3 Budget Reform and the Lisbon Treaty

Chapter 4 European Growth Policies in Times of Change: Budget Reform, Economic Crisis and Policy Entrepreneurship

Chapter 5 The Lisbon Treaty, the Financial Crisis and Exit from Budget Gridlock

Chapter 7 Challenges for the Future of the Structural Funds

Chapter 8 Foreign and Security Policy in Austerity Europe: Budgetary Aspects of the Development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Common Security and Defence Policy

Chapter 9 Conclusion: Budget Policy, Past Experience and the Future