The European Council failed to agree last week on a new budget. The optimum MFF cannot emerge from zero-sum bargaining.
Dencho Georgiev, Tatiana Houbenova-Delisivkova and Irena Ilieva
Dencho Georgiev is guest professor at the Centre for Economic Law and Governance of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and vice-president of the Bulgarian Association of International Law. Tatiana Houbenova-Delisivkova is a professor at the Economic Research Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and president of the Union of Economists in Bulgaria. Prof Irena Ilieva is director of the Institute for the State and the Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.