EU Membership and Budget Allocation Conditionality

• Authors: Molle Willem
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The world is shaken by many new developments. In this turbulence, the EU should provide an area of stability and security. It can only be so in case its internal cohesion is strengthened. The EU is a community based on values. Members have committed themselves to respect European values. But in case of a breach of the contract the Union has only two means to enforce respect for its values. Some have a legal character, others a financial one. The legal method is not very effective in this respect. This paper deals with the financial method. It argues that the conditionality of the budget needs to be increased; non-respect of values by Member States should entail loss of allocations. The recent proposals of the European Commission in this matter fall short of this.

Keywords

EN

European Union; Fundamental Values; Conditionality; Budget Allocation; Structural Funds; Legal Instruments

• Publisher: Centre for Europe, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Studia Europejskie-Studies in European Affairs
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 4
• Pages: 167-182

Contributors

author

Molle Willem

• Erasmus University Rotterdam

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