Gregorio Sorgi
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Governments brace for €100B cut to EU budget proposal (opens the original)
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BRUSSELS — EU governments are preparing for the upcoming proposal on the bloc's next long-term budget to include spending cuts of over €100 billion, four EU diplomats with knowledge of the discussions told POLITICO. Some countries are worried that funding for their pet projects, including farmers’ subsidies and regional payouts, will be slashed by the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU, which is set to present a negotiating document with new figures next week. With three months to go unti
EU’s net payers insist on ‘several hundred billion euros’ in budget cuts (opens the original)
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BRUSSELS — A coalition of wealthy EU nations is demanding that the next long-term budget be dramatically scaled back as diplomats and officials try to reach a deal by year-end. In a letter seen by POLITICO, the leaders of Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and Finland call for the next draft of the budget to be "reduced by several hundred billion euros" when it is presented by Ireland, which holds the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. The next seven-year mul
France warns against impact of foreign aid cuts in EU budget (opens the original)
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France has warned against drastic cuts to the EU’s development spending in the next seven-year budget. Speaking at the POLITICO Brussels Playbook Live event on Tuesday, French European Affairs Minister Benjamin Haddad pointed to the “detrimental consequences” of cuts to USAID under President Donald Trump as a cautionary tale. “These conversations should not be held through a budgetary lens ... The question is how do we make our instruments effective?” Haddad said. EU governments, including Franc
Germany says Costa losing touch ‘with reality’ on EU budget (opens the original)
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BRUSSELS — Germany criticized European Council President António Costa on Tuesday over the fraught negotiations on the EU’s next seven-year budget. Speaking on his way into a meeting of Europe ministers in Brussels, Germany's Gunther Krichbaum said Costa’s recent interview with POLITICO was “not very helpful” and urged “more realism” on the budget. In the interview, conducted in Dublin at the end of his budget tour of EU capitals, Costa said that agreeing to new EU-wide taxes, also known as own
Germany and Spain go head-to-head in EU budget fight (opens the original)
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DUBLIN ― Germany and Spain used separate POLITICO opinion pieces to clash over the total size of the EU’s next approximately €2 trillion seven-year budget, setting the scene for tough negotiations to strike a deal before an informal end-of-year deadline. With talks entering what officials hope will be their final few months, capitals are fighting against each other to save their pet projects and spare their taxpayers from sending more money to Brussels. But after almost a year of painstaking neg
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