MEPs oppose Commission's overhaul of EU budget after 2027

BRUSSELS — The legal affairs committee of the European Parliament gave the opinion of the assembly's legal service just yesterday, considering the approval process of the new Community funding program to be unjustified...

MEPs oppose Commission's overhaul of EU budget after 2027

Members of the European Parliament called for a budget of more than 1% of the EU's GDP and rejected the Commission's idea of single national plans under the EU's next long-term budget (2028-34).

The future budget of the European Union could significantly exceed the current multiannual financial framework adopted by the Union for seven years, amounting to more than a thousand million miles.

MEPs’ vote reinforces push for a standalone FP10

The European Parliament’s budget committee has declared the proposed European Competitiveness Fund “inadequate” and “not fit for purpose” in a report on the EU’s next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). It also called for the creation of a standalone research Framework Programme after 2028. The own-initiative report was approved by the committee on April 23, by 23 votes to nine, with two abstentions. It will now be debated in the Parliament’s

Budgets Committee sets out priorities for next long-term EU budget

(Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Post-2027 budget must reflect current geopolitical, economic, and environmental realities and be flexible  Commission’s ‘single national plan’ approach cannot be the basis for spending in member states  Mega-funds merging existing programmes are not fit for purpose  Robust parliamentary accountability is needed to allocate and trace funds  MEPs in the…

The Alliance for Agriculture and Cooperation (AAC) has welcomed the European Parliament’s position on the future EU budget and its support for a fair and modern Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The European Parliament’s (EP) Committee on Budgets has adopted, with a majority of 23 votes in favour, the report on the future EU budget post-2027. The report, coordinated by MEPs Carla Tavares (S&D, Portugal) and Siegfried Mureșan (EPP, Romania), reje…