After transition the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) provisions no longer apply to the UK and formal cooperation in these areas does not form part of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement reached at the end of December 2020. Instead, the UK Government envisages a flexible, ad hoc approach that will make use of channels of broader dialogue with the EU. How this will work in practice remains to be seen.
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EU Staff Salaries (326 KB, PDF)
There have been several recent EU events concerning the cost of the EU administration in general and EU staff salaries in particular:
– the EU budget allocation for staff salaries, pensions and allowances in the negotiations over the EU budget 2013 and the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2014-20;
– the annual adjustment of the remuneration and pensions of EU staff as required by the EU Staff Regulations;
– the European Commission’s proposals for cutting administrative costs and amending the ‘method’ for calculating staff salaries;
– the Council’s application to invoke the ‘exception clause’, whereby the Commission can depart from the ‘method’ when there is a “serious or sudden deterioration in the economic and social situation” in the EU;
– four cases n progress at the EU Court of Justice regarding the use of the method in 2011 and 2012.
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EU Staff Salaries (326 KB, PDF)
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