EU's Long-Term Budget: Parliament Refuses to Lower Its Ambitions
Parliament says a smaller budget would weaken the bloc, while the Commission proposed just under €2 trillion and member states seek cuts.
- The European Commission urged governments on Tuesday to avoid cutting the seven-year budget, warning such reductions would impact critical priorities like defense and cohesion. Negotiations on the next Multiannual Financial Framework have reached a critical phase.
- Germany and other nations demand cuts, arguing they contribute too much. Parliament's negotiating team, led by Siegfried Muresan and Claudia Tavares, insists on maintaining funding; Chancellor Friedrich Merz claimed on Monday that having no new framework is advantageous for Germany.
- Parliament called for an increase of approximately 10 percent to invest in defense, competitiveness, and cohesion policies. The Council's initial position aims to reduce the Commission's proposed budget, worth under €2 trillion, by two percent.
- Ireland's Minister for European Affairs Thomas Byrne confirmed the Irish Presidency will present a new draft negotiating position for the Council on Saturday, October 10. The proposal aims to move the bloc closer to agreement despite impasse.
- "Reducing the budget would only weaken Europe," MEP Siegfried Muresan warned, preventing the bloc from achieving goals or responding to crises. He emphasized that smaller budgets would harm capacity to address structural problems in the coming years.
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“I would like to caution against large cuts. It would risk cutting deep into critical priorities that we all together have agreed on,” the EU Commission chief told MEPs during a speech in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
Von der Leyen warns against cuts to EU budget. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned on Tuesday in the European Parliament in Strasbourg against making large cuts to the EU budget for 2028-2034. She assessed that these could hit key EU priorities that had been jointly agreed upon earlier. "Let me remind you that we are talking about a budget of 1.26% of the European Union's gross national income," von der Leyen said during a …
Today, Tuesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Layne criticized the substantial reductions Germany and other States are requesting in the next cluster budget, as compared to the project that the Commission had submitted last year.
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