Financing the European Union: new Context, new responses. 11/09/2020
Fuest, Clemens ; Pisani-Ferry, Jean
Bruegel - Brussels
2020
18 p.
epidemic disease ; EU policy ; budget ; financing
Policy Contribution
16
European Union
English
Bibliogr.
"With the European Union for the first time taking on debt to help finance the economic recovery from the coronavirus, new resources are needed to fund the EU budget. Various ideas have been floated – including a digital tax and a financial transactions tax – but the most appropriate new resource would be revenues from the EU emissions trading system, which could provide enough funding to repay the EU's coronavirus borrowing."
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