The Stability of the Revenues to the Budget of the European Union

Abstract

A new European Union own resource based on non-recycled plastic packaging has been introduced. Each Member State must contribute on a national level in proportion to the amount of "plastic packaging waste" that is not recycled. This new policy raises several issues from a political, monetary, and legal perspective. The purpose of the paper is to study the sustainability of this revenue to the budget of the European Union taking into account that it's still unclear if this "EU plastic contribution" is a budgetary tool with an environmental spin or the other way around. While the fiscal and environmental goals might initially seem to be complementary.

Keywords

• european union
• revenues
• plastic contribution
• budget
• economic recovery