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ifo Viewpoint No. 210: Time Has Come for Developing European Public Goods
Now that the EU has a newly elected Parliament and a new Commission, what should be its agenda? Traditionally, its focus has been on economic integration, for example through the single market, the euro or banking union. The EU budget is small and still mostly spent on agricultural and transfers to poorer regions. Nearly seventy years after the Coal and Steel Community, however, this emphasis is increasingly odd. European integration delivers benefits (and disintegration has costs), but it is not a sufficient answer to the challenges Europe faces today.
