Category: EU Budget
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Ministers Weigh the Long-Term Budget Before a Negotiating Box
Brussels: Ministers responsible for European affairs meet in Brussels on 22 September 2026 for a…
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Budget Performance Regulation Slips Toward a 2027 Vote
The EU budget performance regulation, the horizontal rulebook that will govern how every euro of…
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Strasbourg Prepares to Rewrite the Union’s Final Annual Budget
Strasbourg: The European Parliament sets its position on the 2027 budget in October, months after…
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Irish Presidency Will Table Its EU Budget Text in Early October
Brussels: European affairs ministers return to the long-term EU budget at the General Affairs Council…
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Ministers Trim Eight Billion From the Union’s Final Annual Plan
Ljubljana: The seventh and last annual budget of the current long-term framework will be argued…
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Council Cuts Landed Early and Parliament Answers Them in October
Strasbourg: The annual budget procedure has an unwritten rhythm. The Commission proposes in June, the…
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Payments Push the 2027 EU Budget Toward a November Conciliation
Évora: An Alentejo regional authority drafting its 2027 drawdown is working from figures that three…
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Investors Bid 152 Billion for 11 Billion of EU-Bonds
Demand for EU-Bonds is no longer the interesting question. On 15 September 2026 the Commission…
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Budget Performance Rules Reach Parliament Before the Money Talks
Tallinn: Parliament will spend 28 September arguing about how the European Union measures success rather…
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Three Open Files Stand Between Capitals and a Budget Deal
Limerick: Ireland’s officials spent the summer reading twenty-seven sets of red lines, and the Presidency…
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Ministers Cut a Billion From 2027 and Parliament Replies in October
Two sets of numbers now sit on the table for next year’s EU spending, and…
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MEPs Inherit a 2027 Budget That Capitals Already Cut by Eight Billion
The last annual budget of the current seven year cycle landed in June with a…
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Recovery Fund Payment Requests Close at the End of September
Palermo: The recovery fund stopped accepting new work on 31 August. Anything a contractor finished…
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Auditors Still Cannot See Where All of Europe’s Defence Money Goes
Kaunas: The European Court of Auditors published a review of EU defence policy on 3…
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Five New Own Resources Are Waiting on Twenty-Seven Unanimous Yeses
Tallinn: Estonian officials preparing for the next long-term budget round keep returning to the same…
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Governments Trimmed the 2027 Budget Before Parliament Even Voted
Vilnius: Finance ministries treat the annual European budget as a chance to prove restraint at…
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EU Budget 2027 Talks Open With an Eight Billion Gap
Negotiators open the decisive phase of the EU budget 2027 this month with roughly eight…
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Parliament Wants a Bigger Long-Term Budget Than Anyone Will Fund
Nicosia: The Cypriot presidency handed the long-term budget file to Dublin in July with the…
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Conciliation Opens 27 October and Runs for Twenty-One Days Only
Strasbourg: Parliament’s plenary will vote its position on next year’s Union budget in October, and…
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E-Waste and Tobacco Now Sit Inside Europe’s Budget Arithmetic
Craiova: The scrap yards on the edge of this Romanian city handle a fraction of…
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Payments Outrun Commitments in the Union’s 2027 Spending Plan
Luxembourg: Finance ministers fixed the Council position on the 2027 budget at 191.88 billion euros…
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Five New Revenue Streams Wait on Twenty-Seven Unanimous Yeses
Strasbourg: Parliament fixed its number in April and has refused to move from it since.…
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Ireland Has Six Weeks to Turn a Draft Budget Into Real Figures
Galway: The Irish presidency took over the European Union’s long-term budget file on 1 July…
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Five Fresh Revenue Streams Would Feed the EU Budget After 2028
Kaunas: The argument over the next European budget has moved past headline numbers and settled…