The leaders of the European Union (EU) states asked the European Commission (EC) to reduce the plan for increasing the union budget for 2024-2027 by 13 billion. The magazine writes about this Politico citing two European diplomats.
Let us recall that the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed increasing the future budget by 66 billion, and 50 of them should be allocated to assist Ukraine.
“EU countries want the European Commission to reduce the project to increase the medium-term budget by about 20%, that is, 13 billion euros“, the publication found out.
It is clarified that Germany and a number of countries in Eastern and Northern Europe insist on financing the goals put forward by the European Commission by redistributing the current budget. In addition, according to the magazine’s source, the majority of EU members agree that the EC needs to remove a number of expenditure items from the budget increase project.
Earlier, the Financial Times wrote that the European Commission intends to unfreeze 13 billion euros intended to finance Hungary in order to enlist the support of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in increasing the EU budget. Orban himself claims that the proposal to increase the budget for the sake of 50 billion funding for Ukraine is ” frivolous” since no one knows where the money previously provided to Kiev went.
