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- Title
The EU Budget and UK Contribution.
- Authors
Begg, Iain
- Abstract
The European Union budget is small and fulfils only a limited range of functions, yet it provokes regular disputes among the Member States and institutions of the Union. This paper describes the structure of the budget and shows that standard theories, such as fiscal federalism, are not well-suited to analysing how the EU budget operates or the political economy behind it. The paper then looks at how much the UK contributes towards the EU budget and explains why some of the claims made about it in the public discourse are inaccurate.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Union; FEDERAL government; BREXIT Referendum, 2016; AGRICULTURAL policy; EUROPEAN Union membership; FINANCE
- Publication
National Institute Economic Review, 2016, Vol 236, p39
- ISSN
0027-9501
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/002795011623600106