Miroslava Večeř’s Project Supported by a DAAD Scholarship
Miroslava Večeř’s Project Supported by a DAAD Scholarship
The research project of Miroslava Večeř, Assistant Professor at the Department of Financial Law and Financial Science, has been awarded a DAAD scholarship – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. The project is entitled “Rechtsrahmen für die Zukunftsfinanzierung der EU: Tilgung der gemeinsamen Schulden, neue Eigenmittel und ihre demokratische Legitimation”.
In English, the title of the project is: “Legal Framework for the Future Financing of the EU: Repayment of Common Debt, New Own Resources and Their Democratic Legitimacy.”
Miroslava Večeř will carry out the project in 2026 at Heidelberg University within the programme Bilateraler Austausch für Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler (nach Deutschland).
The project focuses on the legal foundations of the European Union’s common borrowing, the identification of legal gaps in this area, and the analysis of the budgetary powers of the EU and its institutions. Particular attention will be paid to defining the respective competences of the Union and the Member States in the field of borrowing, the constitutional admissibility of common debt, and the legal basis of the ongoing transformation of the EU fiscal framework.
The research will also examine the legal status of the European Union as a debtor and assess the compatibility of EU borrowing with the constitutional orders of the Member States. In view of the need to repay common EU debt, the project will also explore current proposals for the introduction of new EU own resources intended to secure additional revenue for the EU budget.
Project Profile
Miroslava Večeř’s project responds to one of the key issues in contemporary European financial law: how the future financing of the European Union should be legally framed, particularly with regard to common borrowing, debt repayment, and the introduction of new own resources. The research connects questions of EU budgetary law, the constitutional law of the Member States, and the democratic legitimacy of decision-making on public finances at the European level.
The project will contribute to a deeper understanding of the legal limits and possibilities of the EU’s future financing. Its findings may support the academic debate on how to establish a transparent, constitutionally compliant, and democratically legitimate framework for European budgetary instruments, new own resources, and responsibility for the repayment of the EU common financial obligations.
