Category: EU Budget
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Why Europe’s Next EU Budget Reopens an Old Divide
Brussels: A year after the Commission unveiled its blueprint for the next EU budget, the…
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Own Resources Dispute Shapes the Next EU Budget Fight
Brussels: The European Parliament and the Council opened a decisive phase of talks on the…
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Corporate Levy and E-Waste Fees Reshape How Europe Funds Itself
The Hague: A quiet fight over how the European Union raises its own money is…
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Ireland Takes Charge of the Fight Over the Next EU Budget
Dublin: Ireland took charge of the fight over the next EU budget on 1 July…
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Companies and Polluters Face New Levies as Own Resources Grow
Rome: The Union wants new ways to pay for itself, and its plan reaches into…
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Member States Haggle Over a Leaner Long Term EU Budget
Copenhagen: Capitals across the union have settled in for a long fight over the EU…
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Parliament Pushes Back on the Two Trillion Euro Budget Plan
The Hague: The fight over how the European Union spends its money for the next…
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Where Should the EU’s €2.1 Billion Surplus Go
Strasbourg: The European Parliament this week took up the Council’s position on draft amending budget…
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Capitals Haggle Over a Two-Trillion-Euro Budget Blueprint
Nicosia: The negotiation that will shape what the European Union can afford to do for…
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Parliament Wants a Far Bigger Budget Than the Commission Dares
Copenhagen: Among the governments that pride themselves on fiscal restraint, the arithmetic of Europe’s next…
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National Capitals Clash Over the Two Trillion Euro Budget Plan
Madrid: Every seven years the Union argues about money on a scale that dwarfs any…
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Parliament Wants a Bigger EU Budget Than Capitals Allow
Brussels: Few negotiations in Brussels carry the weight of the one now unfolding over the…
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Single Spending Plans Reshape How Capitals Draw Their EU Money
The Hague: Among the Union’s net contributors, few watch the machinery of the common budget…
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Two Trillion Euro Budget Plan Collides With Reluctant Capitals
Strasbourg: Nearly a year after the Commission unveiled a long-term budget worth close to two…
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Cyprus Pushes a Leaner Budget as the Trillion-Euro Fight Heats Up
Nicosia: The country holding the rotating presidency of the Council has put a sharper pencil…
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A New Corporate Levy Sits at the Heart of Europe’s Budget Fight
Cork: When Ireland assumes the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on…
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Capitals Clash Over the Size of Europe’s Next Long Term Budget
Brussels: Every seven years the Union sits down to write the cheque that funds everything…
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Brussels Will Borrow Another 80 Billion Euros This Year
The European Commission’s decision to issue up to 80 billion euros of EU-Bonds in the…
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Cyprus Trims the Next EU Budget but Shields Cohesion Cash
Brussels: The Cypriot Presidency of the Council of the EU has tabled a revised negotiating…
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Cyprus Floats a Leaner Long-Term Budget to Break the Deadlock
Nicosia: The Cypriot presidency has done what successive chairs spent six months avoiding, putting hard…
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Friends of Cohesion Dig In as Brussels Redraws the EU Budget
Brussels: When leaders gathered for the European Council on 18 and 19 June, the next…
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Net Payers Dig In as Leaders Clash Over the Next Long-Term Budget
Berlin: The fight over how much the European Union should spend after 2027, and who…
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Capitals Clash Over a Two-Trillion-Euro Blueprint for 2028
Warsaw: When EU heads of government met in Brussels on 18 and 19 June, they…
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The Politics of Retreat: Europe’s Budget Chooses the Past
The Council’s first budget with figures protects the farms and the regions, and cuts the…