Polska prezydencja a budżet Unii Europejskiej

• Authors: Sidonia Jędrzejewska

Title variants

EN

Polish Presidency and the Budget of the European Union

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union was the first to start formal negotiations of the EU’s multi-annual budget, i.e. the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). It was a significant merit of Poland’s chairmanship that the negotiations focused on the MFF project of 2011 prepared by the European Commission and that representatives of the European Parliament were invited to take part in the debate, since the EP traditionally support a generous EU budget. The project of the Commission balances the demands to freeze the multi-annual budget voiced by countries who are net payers and the Parliament’s appeal for an increase of the future MFF by 5% compared to 2013. The inclusion of the European Parliament in these negotiations follows from the regulations of the Lisbon Treaty and is important because in times of crisis it is this institution that protects the interest of the EU as a whole. Such a state of matters is a positive signal for Poland that in negotiations of the 2014-2020 budget it can relay not only on its traditional allies, e.g. the so-called friends of the cohesion policy but also on a vast majority of the members of the European Parliament.

Keywords

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Polish presidency; European Union; budget; Lisbon Treaty

• Publisher: Instytut Zachodni. Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Zachodni
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 2(343)
• Pages: 53-57

Contributors

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Sidonia Jędrzejewska

• Instytut Zachodni, Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy, 61-854 Poznań, ul. Mostowa 27