19 June 2008
Global Europe: vision for a 21st century budget
This document is a contribution to the fundamental review of the EU budget which was launched by the European Commission in 2007. It sets out the UK Government's vision for a reshaped EU budget that would better equip the EU to meet the challenges of the 21st century. It describes the UK's three budgetary principles and, consistent with these, calls for fundamental re-orientation of the budget towards three areas: building a prosperous Europe within a strong global economy, addressing the challenges of climate change and ensuring security, stability and poverty reduction. This re-orientation must be in the context of a shift away from agricultural support. And Structural and Cohesion Funds must be better focused on the less prosperous Member States.
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To read more about the UK's vision for the European Union, see Global Europe - Meeting the Economic and Security Challenges (FCO website, opens in a new browser window)