
The EU budget: it is not the volume that matters most, but where it goes and why
The EU’s budget for the period 2014-2020 will take centre stage at a European summit later this week. There will be much discussion over the size of the budget: will it be cuts, a freeze or more of the same? However, new ODI research suggests it is not the volume that matters most for EU citizens or for global development, but the direction of spending and the distribution of the EU budget across headings.














