What Future For The EC Budget?

From a historic perspective, three particularities stick out: The first is the fact that the "European project" is quite a recent endeavour, and that it has emerged out of voluntary agreement rather than armed conflict, as had been typical for previous territorial enlargements. The second particularity is that the driving force of integration has been economic interest, even though the primary motivation of its founding fathers was political. The third particularity is that with successive enlargements, the Union has gained in political weight as well as in heterogeneity and complexity ...