Book review: Financial accountability in the European Union: institutions, policy and practice edited by Paul Stephenson, María-Luisa Sánchez-Barrueco and Hartmut Aden

Existing books on the EU budget tend to focus on the politics of negotiating it. In Financial Accountability in the European Union: Institutions, Policy and Practice, edited by Paul Stephenson, María-Luisa Sánchez-Barrueco and Hartmut Aden, the contributing authors explore a different perspective: that of the EU’s budgetary and financial accountability. At a time when the EU’s macro-economic role is growing, the book makes a strong case for financial accountability to figure more prominently in academic research, writes Gijs de Vries. Financial Accountability in the European Union: Institutions, Policy and Practice. Paul Stephenson, María-Luisa Sánchez-Barrueco and Hartmut Aden (eds). Routledge. 2021.