Revisiting Early Fiscal Centralisation in the European Coal and Steel Community in Light of the EU's Transfer Budget

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العنوان: Revisiting Early Fiscal Centralisation in the European Coal and Steel Community in Light of the EU's Transfer Budget
المؤلفون: Breuer, Johanna Lorraine
المصدر: Politics and Governance, 11, 4, 28-39, Comparative Fiscal Federalism and the Post-Covid EU: Between Debt Rules and Borrowing Power
بيانات النشر: PRT, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
مصطلحات موضوعية: Politikwissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Political science, Economics, EU budget, European Coal and Steel Community, Next Generation EU, budgetary history, fiscal integration, Europapolitik, Öffentliche Finanzen und Finanzwissenschaft, European Politics, Public Finance, EU, öffentlicher Haushalt, Transfer, Föderalismus, Industriezweig, public budget, transfer, federalism, branch of industry
الوصف: The last few years have resulted in substantial changes for the EU's fiscal powers, primarily through the introduction of the Next Generation EU funds. This article argues that the assessment of these developments as federalisation processes is based upon a central misunderstanding of the EU budget as a public goods budget in a federal state. The EU is a compound polity comprising of mature states, and its budget may be termed a "transfer budget," which allows member states to predict budgetary costs and benefits. To understand the transfer-oriented nature of the budget, this article adopts a historical institutionalist lens. Revisiting the fiscal centralisation in the European Coal and Steel Community allows us to understand how the six delegations agreed to combine economic and social aims in this budget, which was intended to serve the European Coal and Steel Community with similar elements to a public goods budget. Revenue consisted of debts and a levy on coal and steel produce, whereas expenditure ranged from investments to payments to individual workers. The Treaty of Rome, with its anti-supranational basis, triggered a critical juncture in Europe’s budgetary history: Since 1957, a transfer budget evolved. Revisiting the European Coal and Steel Community budget system allows us to understand the fiscal federal appearance of the Next Generation EU funds: While the EU makes new attempts to use its budget for the provision of common goods, its functions are limited by the institutional structure of the transfer budget.
نوع الوثيقة: Zeitschriftenartikel
journal article
تدمد: 2183-2463
DOI: 10.17645/pag.v11i4.7252
URL الوصول: https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/90538
حقوق: Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0
رقم الأكسشن: edsgso.90538
قاعدة البيانات: SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository
الوصف
تدمد:21832463
DOI:10.17645/pag.v11i4.7252