Do Benevolent Aspects Have Room in Explaining EU Budget Receipts?

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The member states have self-interested objectives and they use their voting power in the Council of Ministers (CM) to maximize their shares from the EU budget, whereas European Parliament (EP) uses its power to support benevolent objectives and equality between member states. Given the current decision procedures of the EU, EP has effective power on non-compulsory expenditure covering structural spending, but not on compulsory expenditure consisting mainly of agricultural spending. We use this fact to assess how the assumed benevolent objectives of EP turn into member states' budget receipts in a power politics based model.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Discussion paper ; No. 38

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Cooperative Games ; Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
• Subject: European integration ; EU budget ; voting power

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kauppi, Heikki ; Widgrén, Mika
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Aboa Centre for Economics (ACE)
• (where): Turku
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/233254
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET