Popular articles tagged "EU budget"
Ministers did agree the outline of several new instruments, including a single national and regional plan for each country.
This year's programme has placed affordable housing and what the Commission calls democratic engagement at its centre.
The loan was agreed by EU leaders in December 2025 and finalised in April, after Hungary lifted a two-month veto.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen would like to have more than €2 trillion at her disposal between 2028 and 2034.
The signatories argued in their statement that the CAP, the Common Fisheries Policy and Cohesion were "the only policies facing cuts in real terms".
The Commission noted weaker private consumption and investment, compounded by persistent structural problems.
The government has not clarified another €3 billion for civil servants' pensions in 2025 that may have been funded the same way.
In a rare public fracture at Spain’s Tribunal de Cuentas, the country’s top fiscal watchdog, several senior auditors have tried to block the routine approval…
The EU has finally agreed to lend Ukraine another €90 billion.
The European Union has told British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that the UK must make annual payments of approximately £1 billion (€1.
The text calls for new own resources generating around €60 billion a year.
The European Parliament has dramatically escalated its demands for the European Union’s next long-term budget, calling for a €2.
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has warned that the European Commission's proposed overhaul of the EU's next long-term budget does not, on its own, guarantee…
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has renewed his call for the European Union to ease fiscal constraints, arguing that current budget rules limit governments’…
EU lawmakers on Thursday demanded a European Union-wide tax on the world's biggest tech companies and online gambling sites to help fund the 27-country bloc's next…
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said today the European Union should consider temporarily suspending its strict spending rules if the Iran war and the resulting…
Italian business and political leaders are calling on EU institutions to take extraordinary measures to address the energy crisis provoked by the war with Iran.
The Brussels region's new budget minister Dirk De Smedt has warned that a full shutdown of public services is a real threat as the region is struggling to find money.
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has again raised concerns over European Union spending.
The European Union’s schoolmarm in chief, Ursula von der Leyen, has called her unruly charges together this week in Copenhagen, where she will rap knuckles and…
Former climate change commissioner Frans Timmermans and former environment commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius are the subject of an official complaint by the European…
Ursula von der Leyen’s launch last week of the Commission’s proposed 2028-34 budget, aka “Multiannual Financial Framework”, brought back a few unsettling…
The European Commission's newly proposed budget is so "confusing" that it might get rejected.
JURI, the Committee on Legal Affairs in the European Parliament, has voted to pursue legal action against European Commission President von der Leyen's €150 billion…
The region of Brussels has asked the European Union for cash to cover unexpected costs of redevelopment works around the Schuman roundabout, home to most EU institutions.
Massive increases of up to 38 per cent in European Union bureaucrat expense entitlements has been likened to staff bank accounts "being stuffed full of Euros from…
Twelve European Union countries have requested activation of the "national escape clause" from EU deficit rules in order to boost their defence spending, the European…
The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) has reported a record €24.8 billion in fraud for 2024, more than half of which was linked to cross-border VAT scams.
With President Trump's new administration combing through public spending and finding many questionable uses of taxpayers' money, in particular on payments made…
The European Union is planning to give away €1.9 billion of taxpayer money in so-called "humanitarian aid" this year, the European Commission has announced.
