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How the EU’s budget could be cut by half. The budget of the European Union could function at half of the proposed cost to EU taxpayers while boosting economic growth, according to this report, 50:50 for 2020. The study’s recommendations include:. Scrapping duties on trade. Abandoning proposals for new EU taxes. Abolishing the Common Agricultural and Fisheries policies. Reforming competitiveness and cohesion budgets. Cutting salaries and perks of EU bureaucrats. Boosting EU Trade with South East Asia.
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Costs and Benefits of Eurozone Breakup. Eurozone financial markets have stabilized since 2012. But the European monetary union continues to face significant challenges. Widespread political opposition to further European integration implies that the risk of a breakup has not been eliminated. To analyze the costs and benefit of single country exit from the Eurozone as well as full-blown breakup of the euro it is necessary to take into account both real and financial effects. Nordvig’s work has been ...
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EU countries are missing a big opportunity to boost growth and cut debt by privatising state assets, according this report. The Privatisation Goldmine says that economic performance would be improved by the impact of privatisation on productivity. Releasing this potential could increase GDP by between 2% and 3% in Eurozone countries such as France, Spain and Italy. Meanwhile debt could be cut by nearly 6% in Spain and 5.5% in France. Next Generation Telecom Policy and the Digital Single Market. Ending Ex...
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The Telegraph Have we stuck our heads in the sand over Europe? This article was originally published in The Telegraph. By Geoffrey Van Orden MEP. I have an awful fear that in 3 years time I shall be sitting in the European Parliament, still in Strasbourg, and I wont feel that much has changed although we have got most of what we asked for. One area of great concern is foreign and defence policy. This seems to be ignored in all the discussion of EU reform. It will be said that the EEAS can only act when n...
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Poland. Europe. EURO. More than half of Poles think that the introduction of the euro in Poland would have a negative impact. The conference Poland. Europe. EURO is designed to increase awareness about the benefits and risks arising from the introduction of the common currency in Poland. 1300 - prof. Zdzislaw Krasnodębski: Euro, Europe and Germany. The impact of the common currency in Germany and in Europe. 1320-13.50 - Frits Bolkestein: The European Monetary Union. The Euro-Rescue Policy and Brexit.
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EUROZONE, FINANCE AND ECONOMY. DEFENCE, FOREIGN POLICY AND SECURITY. ACCOUNTABILITY, TRANSPARENCY AND EFFICIENCY. IMMIGRATION, JUSTICE AND SOCIETY. The Local Impact of the EU Law, Who’s Keeping Score? In the paper, Richard Torr, an expert on performance measurement, will present the data behind the Subsidiarity Scoreboard, a tool aimed at measuring the impact of EU law at a local level. Strengthening Eastern Europe’s flank Prospects for the NATO Warsaw Summit. Boosting EU Trade with South East Asia.
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