#ZEWlive-Webinare: EU Budget Talks

#ZEWlive: EU Budget Talks is a webinar series organised by ZEW Mannheim which accompanies the debate on the future of the EU budget and the negotiations on the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). The webinars offer analytical perspectives on spending priorities, distributional conflicts and the financing of the EU budget.

The MFF is the EU’s central fiscal planning instrument and a key arena of political negotiation. New priorities such as security, competitiveness and climate policy compete with established spending areas for example, agriculture and cohesion. The focus is also increasingly shifting to the revenue side of the EU budget and in particular to instruments such as new own resources, emissions trading revenues or joint borrowing.  Independent economic analysis is therefore becoming ever more essential. “ZEW EU Budget Talks” provides a forum where researchers, policymakers and experts from EU institutions can discuss the economic trade-offs shaping the next EU budget and connect ongoing ZEW research with current policy debates.