Germany finances 20 of the EU budget but receives only 12 of EU spending.

Third, member states should not cut the EU budget indiscriminately during negotiations on the Union's long term spending plan for 2014 2020.

The green potential within EU spending has already taken root.

One budget area can and should be cut military spending.

Overall spending is still dwarfed by US federal research and development spending, which will total 137 billion in the 2007 fiscal year. European leaders must therefore substantially increase research funding when the EU budget is next due for revision in 2008 and 2009.

The Court of Auditorsensures the lawful management of the EU budget.

In Tanzania, next year s budget provides for a 44 increase in poverty related spending.

This year, Azerbaijan s military budget alone exceeded total state spending in Armenia and Karabakh.

Being smart about development spending could be better than quadrupling the global aid budget.

In the budget the Minister details the Government's spending programme for the coming year.

Countries that substitute government spending for market spending either generate inflationary budget deficits, or end up with excessively high tax rates that destroy incentives.

By 2019, total military spending is projected to be 8.2 trillion, exceeding by 2 trillion the budgeted outlays for all non mandatory budget spending.

Efforts were made to prioritize work on the budget and increase coordination with spending agencies.

Approval of such a unified annual budget would provide the Secretariat with appropriate spending authority.

Thanks to Bush's tax cuts and military spending, which have contributed to budget deficits of 500 billion per year, the US will have to raise taxes and limit budget spending, whether or not Bush is re elected.

Only then should the Government pledge a responsible path of budget spending, but not extreme cuts.

The federal mandatory spending proposed for Guam in the 2006 fiscal year budget is 131 million.

Noting the emergency measures taken by the territorial Government to cut budget deficit and government spending,

Even if they were, collectively, to match America's defense spending, they could not match US defense capability unless they combined their defense spending in a single budget.

Paragraph 3 Health spending The following table provides information on health spending as a percentage of the State budget and of GDP during the period 1973 1996.

Although research funding is rising, it accounts for just 4.7 of EU spending, compared to 31.7 for agriculture.

However, at the time of writing in June 2005, it was expected that the EU research budget for the period 2007 2013 will suffer cuts during the negotiations on the overall EU budget.

Creating a special EU defense budget, to finance common missions, capabilities and weapons programs

The EU budget is an investment vehicle that boosts economic growth and creates jobs.

The EU 6th Research Framework Programme willcontribute to the INTAS budget with 70 million.

In 2004 state spending for education amounted to 3.6 of GDP, or 13 of consolidated state budget.

To compound those problems, we are also spending 40 per cent of our budget on debt repayment.

According to an official press release of the Government of American Samoa, budget spending showed an excellent response from government departments on a directive to cut and tighten spending.

Meanwhile, faced with a large federal budget deficit, many American voters would welcome reduced spending on nuclear weapons.

The 2005 Budget projected a 10 million decrease in Government spending and envisaged a surplus of 20 million.

Such ambitious goals, however unrealistic, can have a disciplining effect, leading some EU countries to increase their spending, while the EU itself has launched a number of promising schemes.

Such ambitious goals, however unrealistic, can have a disciplining effect, leading some EU countries to increase their spending, while the EU itself has launched a number of promising schemes.

EU civilian crisis management is funded directly from the Common Foreign and Security Policy budget.

The EU budget leverages investment, allows for economies of scale, and cannot run a deficit.

This framework would reduce incentives for using annual EU budget negotiations to advance political agendas.

Meanwhile, Spain s budget deficit was 5.7 of GDP last year, the highest in the EU.

The 2005 budget of 3.5 billion approved by Parliament in April predicts a fall in both revenue and expenditure, but excluded off budget expenditure, particularly military spending.

America's military budget is currently about 450 billion, roughly equal to the rest of the world's combined military spending.

In that case, the stimulus will have little positive effect on household spending, but will worsen the budget deficit.

Under normal circumstances, I would oppose this rise in the budget deficit and the higher level of government spending.

The budget is viewed more as a framework for spending and accounting than as an instrument of fiscal policy.

The EU budget amounts to about 1 of GDP, just one fortieth of total public expenditure.

The net contributors to the EU budget were the ones who stood to lose the most.

Within days of the votes, they failed to agree on the EU budget for 2007 13.

Here, too, the sum needed would probably be rather small compared to the overall EU budget.