Structural Budget Balances in EU Member States

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Series Details January 2017
Publication Date January 2017
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Structural budget balances play an important role in the fiscal policy frameworks of the EU both as part of the application of the Stability and Growth Pact and in the implementation of the balanced budget rule ('Fiscal Compact') by the contracting parties of the intergovernmental Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the EMU. This document gives an overview of the concept and application of the structural balance rule(s) in the EU.

Author: K.Hagelstam, J. Angerer and M-T. Bitterlich

Source Link http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2017/587388/IPOL_BRI(2017)587388_EN.pdf
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