US EditionVon der Leyen offers minor concessions on EU budget to placate centrist MEPs
- On Sunday, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered minor concessions on her 2 trillion draft EU budget to placate the four centrist parties, sending a letter to Roberta Metsola and Mette Frederiksen ahead of Monday talks.
- Opposition crystallised around the National and Regional Partnership Plans, as last month the European People's Party, S&D, Renew Europe and the Greens demanded an amended proposal to the €865 billion national programmes.
- By preserving the plan's structure, the Commission proposed targeted adjustments focused on regions and oversight, retaining the €865 billion national plans while adding a rural target and boosting European Parliament oversight and regional authorities.
- The crisis meeting among Ursula von der Leyen, Roberta Metsola and Mette Frederiksen focused on securing parliamentary support, with the Wednesday resolution likely to be withdrawn as a political win for the European Parliament.
- The budget needs to be unanimously agreed upon by the 27 leaders, ideally by December next year, and Ursula von der Leyen said tweaks can be added by co-legislators without new legal texts.
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The president of the executive tries to contain the threats of the MEPs, who feel they are not at all German and who totally reject the new budget structure.
In the face of Parliament's malaise, the President of the Commission proposes to strengthen the role of regional authorities and to ensure a minimum share of national plans in the agricultural sector, but Coldiretti and Confagricoltura remain critical.
Von der Leyen offers minor concessions on EU budget to placate MEPs
Ursula von der Leyen has proposed changes to her €2 trillion EU budget to empower regional authorities and protect financing for rural areas. The tweaks look to stave off a parliamentary rebellion after a week of tensions.
After the European political groups threatened to censor the draft European budget, the European executive made certain concessions on Monday 10 November in order to maintain the future budget of the common agricultural policy.
The President of the Commission makes concessions to appease farmers, mayors and the European Parliament. Thus, she wants to save her goal of distributing the billions from Brussels in a completely different way in the future.
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