EL PAIS
欧州連合の理事会は、2014年ー2020年の欧州連合の予算案を前回より削減の予算案で、欧州経済先進国は厳しい予算削減を要求
CUMBRE DE PRESUPUESTOS DE LA UE
La Europa rica se conjura para recortar aún más el presupuesto comunitario
La cumbre decide hoy las cuentas europeas hasta 2020, marcadas por la austeridad
Por primera vez en la historia de la UE, el Presupuesto será menor que en el periodo anterior
La mayoría de países apenas aspiran a limitar daños
Claudi Pérez Bruselas 7 FEB 2013 - 15:26 CET
SUMMIT EU budgets
The plot is rich Europe to further cut the EU budget
The summit decided today European accounts to 2020, marked by austerity
For the first time in the history of the EU, the budget will be less than in the previous period
Most countries can hardly hope to limit damage
Claudi Perez Brussels 7 FEB 2013 - 15:26 CET
Summits are large mirrors mood of the European project, as reflected in an abundant literature statements. Germany said Wednesday he does not think scratching your pocket austerity by flag once again. UK requires cuts, but has ensured that keep intact the rebate negotiated by Margaret Thatcher in the day with that battle cry, "I want my money back": the ensign of the British, and that of many others, is what's that hackneyed mine, the lack of solidarity. And France, which is in favor of growth policies, has not gotten a single one of his proposals prokeynesianas has the slightest traction, demonstrating that this is, above all, a lack of political crisis.
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Austerity, lack of solidarity and political crisis: the Summit of Heads of State and Government starts this Thursday in Brussels to decide the EU budget from 2014 to 2020, marked by these three principles. The rich Europe has conspired to cut, again, budgets, after the failed summit in November. This time the deal is possible: all, without exception, agree that the EU budget can not be alien to the culture that permeates snip European economic policy. For the first time in the relatively young history of the Union, the budget will be lower than the previous period, 2007-2013. Good metaphor to reflect the poor health of the European project.
The team of President of the Council, Herman Van Rompuy, was close to closing the deal in November. Then introduced a cut 80,000 million compared to the Commission proposal (approximately billion euros for seven years, equivalent to a meager 1% of European GDP, twenty times less than the U.S. budget). In Germany, the UK, Holland and Sweden seemed little. So there was no sign the agreement and this cut will have to add an additional day at least 15,000 million. Scissors on scissors.
With those numbers, budgets can not serve as an impetus to nowhere: not really fight against youth unemployment, despite preparing patches, or to stimulate growth, to what is already approved in June useless patches in October and have not had the slightest effect. The Twenty aspire at most to save the furniture. Each country and Spain is not far from an exception, expected to leave for home by limiting the maximum damage. Nothing more.
The theater is assured: "It is now or never," said a senior source community. The meeting will last until dawn - "the distance between the proposals is still big," Merkel warned before the start of the summit, but likely will end with an agreement that, despite the cuts, President Van Rompuy has listed a string of strips to each other, so that almost all the presidents and heads of state can come home with something in his hands to defend himself before the public.
2014-2020 budgets are anything but simple, since the very name (Multiannual financial perspective) to a set of esoteric concepts acrisolado only suitable for hardened Eurocrats. These are some of the keys that are discussed today:
Spain: it looks like I'm
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The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy. / VIDEO: ATLAS | PHOTO: EFE
The main objective of the delegation led by a weakened (after recent scandals) Mariano Rajoy is that Spain remains a net recipient of funds. In recent years it has received about 13,000 million per year (mainly agricultural and structural funds), and has provided some 10,000 million. This time will receive significantly less than in the previous period: Spain is relatively richer than before, partly because of the EU enlargement to the East, although paradoxically faces the worst crisis in generations. The government managed to soften the blow in November with a check last minute, was then called "the Spanish for": 2.800 million for cohesion and 500 million for agriculture. A pressure suits Spain French agriculture and German cohesion projects. In addition, it benefits a novelty: the review clause, which is to modify the budgets throughout the period, depending on the evolution of the crisis (in the Spanish case, expected to worst: that will make more money earner). Although you should probably a bigger budget that pays for growth, Spanish sources explained that the budget cut does not hurt: Spain will pay less at a difficult time for the public coffers.
The additional scissors, infrastructure
The President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy. EFE / EFE
The thesis of the rich countries are imposed: in additional snip prepares Van Rompuy, and to be known around four in the afternoon of Thursday, there will be deep cuts in infrastructure (mainly telecommunications and energy: transport just suffer variations). This is a chapter called connecting Europe, suffering a loss of 10,000 million. The rest, more than 5,000 million, will focus on the external action service discutidísimo-condemned, even more, to irrelevance to the renationalisation of EU foreign policy, and personnel costs. The strikes eurofuncionarios prepared to resist what looks like a tsunami in Europe: trimming institutional structures. United Kingdom has put all the emphasis possible (and formidable propaganda machine) in reducing the EU bureaucracy, and in general has been one of the countries that has demanded cuts. Germany is not going to lag behind: a German newspaper published these days that there are 4,000 officials in Brussels that charge more than Chancellor Angela Merkel, a figure almost impossible to prove. Austerity, however, not true for some things, like the British rebate, which remains more or less shielded: 3.000 million per year. Some exceptions are untouchable: the check would remain intact even if there was agreement among the leaders. Things Brussels.
What if there is no agreement?
The multiannual financial perspectives, over a seven-year, have every sense to implement long-term European projects: linking investment territories can not specify in a single year, and which enable the continent to some convergence gone with the crisis. But first a failure in the negotiations, although have serious problems, not seen as a debacle: no agreement will be developed annual budgets. In that case, Spain would suffer, as percipient of structural funds. UK-how to keep your check-no, but Germany, Sweden, Holland and Austria would also very touched, as European sources. The country would be better off France, whose direct payments in agriculture would be extended.
The common interest and possible veto of the Parliament
The European Parliament. / PATRICK SEEGER (EFE)
Despite the fanfare, European budgets have been declining over time. Not only is that the figures used are virtually no macroeconomic impact, beyond the war stories with one another and patches last minute face-saving in some capitals (the Thursday in the Spanish case, will probably a package of several billion euros to youth unemployment, Spain section which is, by far, European champion). The latest negotiations show that, once again, will be key austerity budgets, sacrificing growth policies to preserve national interests of large countries. Even in the case of France, which calls press conferences stimulus policies but that when negotiating resist tooth and nail to reduce the weight of agriculture in the budget, around 40% of the total, when the sector accounts for only 4% of European GDP. More and more countries require similar checks to the British, and if not ad hoc solutions to save the furniture: "It's like 27 Margaret Thatchers sit around a table" to get the most out of the budget and provide the minimum, claimed a few days ago Alain Lamassoure, chairman of the Budget Committee of the European Parliament, in Le Monde. MEPs certainly retains the ability to veto whatever comes out of the summit if not satisfied with the compromise. It is the first time I have that option, and threatens to use it if the scissors than their red lines. And it will not be nothing, but that nothing away from them.
欧州連合の理事会は、2014年ー2020年の欧州連合の予算案を前回より削減の予算案で、欧州経済先進国は厳しい予算削減を要求
