Preface; S. Wall Introduction: A History of the European Union Budget and the Possibilities for Reform; G. Benedetto PART I: THE POLITICS OF BUDGET REFORM Negotiations of the European Union Budget: How Decision Processes Constrain Policy Ambition; S. Hagemann Budget Reform and the Lisbon Treaty; G. Benedetto European Growth Policies in Times of Change: Budget Reform, Economic Crisis and Policy Entrepreneurship; R. Kaiser H. Prange-Gst hl The Lisbon Treaty, Financial Crisis and Exit from Budget Gridlock; C. B. Blankart G. B. Koester PART II: PUBLIC SPENDING AND BUDGET REFORM Reform of the European Union Budget: Implications for the Common Agricultural Policy; A. Greer Challenges for the Future of the Structural Funds; S. Milio Foreign and Security Policy in Austerity Europe: Budgetary Aspects of the Development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Common Security and Defence Policy; A. Miskimmon Conclusion: Budget Policy, Past Experience and the Future; G. Benedetto S. Milio Bibliography Index.