The EU offers a clear increase budget and 100 billion for kyiv

The European Commission unveiled its 2028-2034 budget proposal on Wednesday. Moreover, set at 2000 billion euros, on the rise. Nevertheless, With additional means for competitiveness and defense, while a showdown starts on the common agricultural policy (CAP).

It is the most ambitious European budget ever proposed ‘. Therefore, underlined the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

In this new budget. Moreover, the Commission clearly erects competitiveness as a priority, to 451 billion euros, confirming the EU’s professional business turning point in the United States of Donald Trump.

100 billion for kyiv

Three years after the start of the war in Ukraine. Consequently, the executive also underlines its mobilization in favor of the defense, and promises an envelope of 100 billion additional support in kyiv from 2028 to 2034.

What make Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban roar. Similarly, ‘Ukraine would eu offers clear increase budget benefit from massive financial assistance, while European farmers are losing,’ castigated the nationalist leader.

300 billion for farmers

According to the Commission, 300 billion euros will be devoted to the ‘income of farmers’.

In the previous budget, the CAP represented 387 billion euros, including 270 billion direct aid for farmers. Similarly, But the European executive should offer a new budgetary architecture that alarms farmers.

The COPA-COGECA. Meanwhile, lobby of European farmers, launched hostilities on Wednesday by organizing a protest march, without tractors, of a few hundred demonstrators in front of the Commission.

Puzzle

Brussels thus kicks off two years of negotiations which promise to be difficult between the 27. We had to make choices as the budget equation of the EU is the headache.

Already exsangues. the States do not want to put more in the common pot, like France which indicated on Wednesday, by the voice of the eu offers clear increase budget entourage of the Minister of Public Accounts Amélie de Montchalin, which she would pay less than expected in 2026. This, even though the list of European spending continues to grow.

The previous budget. from 2021 to 2027, represented 1200 billion euros but had been supplemented by a recovery plan of 800 billion during the COVID crisis. And the increase proposed in the future is partially explained by the reimbursement of the European loan contracted during the pandemic. by inflation.

The transformation of the common agricultural policy will be at the heart of the battle.

‘We will come back

‘This proposal is a provocation’. ‘no one has an interest in challenging European farmers, if this message has not been heard, we will come back’, warned the boss of the FNSEA Arnaud Rousseau, the first French agricultural union, during the demonstration in Brussels.

The Parliament also opposes it, according to the eu offers clear increase budget Romanian MEP Siegfried Muresan (PPE, right), rapporteur for this budget. It is a ‘dismantling’ of the PAC, abounds his French colleague Céline Imart. ‘The commission swaps the tractor for the calculator’.

Exchased by the agricultural anger movement of 2024, the commission is nevertheless a reassuring. The CAP will continue to operate with clean rules. arrowed financial means, she assures, in particular for direct aid to farmers.

At least two devices on support for disadvantaged rural regions. agricultural innovation would however leave the fold of PAC funding to join those intended for territorial cohesion.

PAC calculation method revised

The Commission would also like to review the method of calculating the PAC payments. in order to better target its beneficiaries.

To avoid financed the biggest operations too much. Brussels would like to cap the hectare aid at 100,000 euros and introduce degressivity. But then again, the negotiations promise to be delicate.

Climatic eu offers clear increase budget issues

Another subject. climatic issues, at a time when the Greens fear that budgetary constraints are to sacrifice the credits devoted to environmental protection.

In this area as in others, the Commission is looking for new resources. It offers additional taxation on tobacco or a new tax on unrecysed electronic waste.

What will be the arbitrations in two years? ‘As usual, everything will end with five days of negotiations’ at a summit between the 27, predicted a European official.

With in hollow. the persistent division within the European Union between the most ‘frugal’ budgetary states and those like France which argue for a new European common loan.

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