European Union Budget Reform

1. Introduction: A History of the European Union Budget and the Possibilities for Reform
Giacomo Benedetto

Part I. The Politics of Budget Reform

2. Negotiations of the European Union Budget: How Decision Processes Constrain Policy Ambitions
Sara Hagemann

3. Budget Reform and the Lisbon Treaty
Giacomo Benedetto

4. European Growth Policies in Times of Change: Budget Reform, Economic Crisis and Policy Entrepreneurship
Robert Kaiser, Heiko Prange-Gstöhl

5. The Lisbon Treaty, the Financial Crisis and Exit from Budget Gridlock
Charles B. Blankart, Gerrit B. Koester

Part II. Public Spending and Budget Reform

6. Reform of the European Union Budget: Implications for the Common Agricultural Policy
Alan Greer

7. Challenges for the Future of the Structural Funds
Simona Milio

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
Alister Miskimmon

9. Conclusion: Budget Policy, Past Experience and the Future
Giacomo Benedetto, Simona Milio

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Union Politics, Political Economy, Political Science, Economics, general, International Relations