EU budget: No big supplement despite cri • Table.Briefings

The war in Ukraine, inflation and rising interest rates: the EU’s financial framework is not designed to cope with all this. Nevertheless, the Commission is unlikely to ask the member states for a large additional payment. The sovereignty fund will thus not be a great success.

The team around the new Budget Director General Stéphanie Riso, currently poring over the figures, is small. The group’s discussions are largely shielded, even within the EU Commission. As a result, few details have been leaked so far about the changes to the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) that the Commission intends to propose in just over two weeks – reportedly with a package of new own resources. What is clear, however: it will not be a big supplement.

EU budget: No big supplement despite crises

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