EU Summit: Le Pen Wants to Slow Down Decision on EU Budget
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French far-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen has called for a deal on the European Union's long-term budget to be delayed until after the French presidential election in 2027. She made the remarks in Brussels ahead of an EU summit. Le Pen insisted that negotiations on the seven-year financial framework for 2028-2034 should only be concluded after elections in France, Italy, Poland and Spain. She said an earlier deal would be a "democrati…
Addressing a news conference in Brussels on the eve of a leaders' summit, the front-runner in France's presidential race described the 'accelerating timetable' for reaching on the 2028-2034 budget as 'an tempt to pre-empt and sifle upcoming democratic choices.'
The French presidential candidate is not present at the meeting in Brussels, but the EU budget negotiations want to influence her.
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The major issues and major issues are on the agenda at the EU summit on Thursday and Friday in Brussels, and therefore it also takes two days instead of one: the positions in the negotiations for the next multi-annual EU budget are further apart after the presentation of the Irish "negotiation box" than before; the further enlargement and necessary EU reforms as well as the migration policy after the Ceuta crisis also divide the Union.
In an interview with the Financial Times, the RN candidate warned that she intended to impose her choices, even if she provoked a confrontation with the European institutions and the other Member States.
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