Analyse : Le nouveau cadre financier de l'UE pour la période 2007-2013

Dans cet article de la revue trimestrielle  “Integration” del’Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), Peter Becker analyse le statu quo des perspectives financières pour la période 2007-2013 et examine la logique de gagnant-perdant des Etats membres qui se trouve au coeur de ce processus.

After two years of intense negotiations and a grand finale of around 30 hours at the European Council meeting in Brussels, the enlarged EU finally managed to agree a new financial framework for 2007-2013 in mid-December 2005. Although relief initially outweighed fears that a settlement had long seemed unlikely, in the weeks thereafter the compromise itself and the negotiation process in particular were subject to increasingly severe criticism. This criticism became most manifest when the European Parliament rejected the financial framework on 12 January 2006. This article first analyses the compromise that was reached at the European Council in mid-December before tracing the negotiation process between December 2003 and 2005. In conclusion, it examines the member states’ win-lose logic that lies at the heart of this process, identifying it as the core problem behind the enlarged-EU’s inability to reform.

A full version of the article (in German) can be downloaded here.