US EditionThe European Parliament Revolts Against Commission Budget Proposal
Four European Parliament political groups demand changes to the nearly €2 trillion budget proposal to protect cohesion and agriculture funds and preserve Parliament's negotiation role.
- On Thursday, four political groups in the European Parliament threatened to block negotiations on the next EU €2 trillion budget unless seven changes are made.
- The Commission's July proposal centralises cohesion and farm aid into €865 billion centralised national plans, shifting funds toward security and defence and reducing cohesion policy and Common Agricultural Policy shares.
- MEPs set out seven specific amendments they want to the draft budget, including reversing the single cash pot, splitting agriculture and cohesion, and strengthening Parliament's role amid warnings of `fragmentation, de-solidarisation` and a democratic deficit.
- Parliament retains the power to reject the final MFF, which could prolong negotiations as lawmakers debate the draft on Wednesday, November 12.
- Concentrating nearly half of EU funds in national plans may empower governments diverging from EU values, as critics warn, with 90% of current funds already earmarked, prompting off-budget instruments like the Ukraine Facility and SAFE loans.
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In a letter, MEPs call for a new draft budget, otherwise they would stop the negotiations.
BRUSSELS - The Commission and Parliament are still holding an uncertain outcome on the next European budget 2028-2034. The main centrist parties that sit...
It will not be easy for the European Commission to convince the House that its draft budget for the 2028-34 period is what the EU needs. It is rejected by even the political groups that ratified the Community Executive, both Ursula von der Leyen for the Presidency and the other Commissioners.
The Presidents of the three political groups which make up the centrist majority in Parliament (EPP, S&D, Renew), as well as the Greens, are at this stage refusing the Commission's budget proposal.
A letter addressed to Ursula von der Leyen to reject the current budget proposal presented by the EU Commission. It was signed by Ppe, Socialists, Renew and Verdi, that is, the same political forces that in the European Parliament which came out of the elections of 2024 voted to reconfirm the former German Minister of Defence at the head of the Community executive. In the text, dated 30 October and signed among others by Manfred Weber, Iratxe Ga…
The central-right, socialist, liberal and green banks reject the proposal because it is due to the approach of "a national plan by a Member State", requiring a new version.
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