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Financing social and cohesion policy in an enlarged EU — plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose?
Author(s)	Adrian Kay, Robert Ackrill
Journal title	Journal of European Social Policy, vol 17, no 4, November 2007
Pages	pp 361-374
Source	http://esp.sagepub.com
Keywords	Social policy ; Public finances ; European Union ; Western Europe.
Annotation	The development of the Open Method of Coordination agreement of the Lisbon Agenda and European Union (EU) enlargement offered the prospect of a new and substantial EU social policy agenda. This article considers EU social and cohesion policies in the context of the recent negotiation of the EU budget for 2007-13. The authors find the Commission's wish to redistribute EU spending in favour of these policy areas and new Member States was thwarted by key political features of EU budget making: Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) spending levels which are downwardly sticky; institutional arrangements which provide for budget making as, at best, a zero-sum game; and the preferences of contributor Member States in the EU-15 to contain overall spending while preserving their net budget positions. Questions are thus raised as the the ability of the EU to make any progress, from a budgetary perspective, on the social and cohesion policy agenda in an enlarged EU. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-071031206 A
Classmark	TM2: WN5: WFC: 76
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