Contradictions in the Governance of Financial Accountability in the EU

Abstract

The panel, organised by EUFINACCO; the interdisciplinary research network on the EU budget and related topics (https://eufinacco.wordpress.com/), explores contradictions and variations in the institutions and governance of financial accountability in the EU. On the one hand, EU governance was supposed to become more homogenous with the institutional setting established by the Treaty of Lisbon. On the other hand, over the past few years, specific instruments and institutions have been created outside the governance framework established by the Lisbon Treaty, e.g. in relation to the Eurozone crisis, or to trigger economic growth. The panel also discusses the specific role that the European Court of Auditors and national supreme audit institutions play in the governance of financial accountability in the EU and for the instruments established outside the general EU framework.

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