Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro and Socialist Party leader Pedro Nuno Santos will meet again at the end of the day on Thursday as part of the negotiations on the 2025 budget, a source in Luís Montenegro’s office told Lusa.
The 2025 budget bill calls for military spending to account for almost a third of federal spending. At the same time, the Kremlin has called up 130,000 young people for military service.
The Leaders’ Conference on Wednesday looked at a proposed timetable for the general debate on the 2025 budget, to be held on 30 and 31 October, with the final overall vote scheduled for 28 November.
More billions are on the way from the tech giant as the Irish hoover up multinational taxes at a breakneck pace — but struggle to build what this booming nation needs.
If the centre-right Partido Popular rejects the draft 2025 budget, the country could lose €12 billion for regions and local councils, Digital Transformation and Civil Service Minister Óscar López warned on Monday.
Newly-appointed French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has revealed his government, keeping much of the pro-Macron agenda while making key concessions to the far-right Rassemblement National (RN).
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier said on Sunday that he would avoid broad tax hikes, opting instead for tax increases for high earners. Barnier’s first major test will be to narrow the budget shortfall and submit a 2025 budget plan on France’s fin…
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s new government is already feeling the pressure from opposition politicians on both sides amid growing threats of a no-confidence vote in parliament. Barnier’s first main task is to submit a 2025 budget plan that …
Right-leaning cabinet under the new prime minister has already been challenged by leftwing bloc NFPThe French president, Emmanuel Macron, has named a new government led by the prime minister, Michel Barnier, marked by a shift to the right 11 weeks afte…
MEPs and pressure groups have decried a €295mn planned cut to the Erasmus student-exchange programme, formalised by EU member states today.
The European Commission, European Parliament and the Council is set to start negotiating the 2025 budget in November; but is the Erasmus+ scheme imperilled?
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier, appointed on Thursday (5 September) by President Macron, is in a race against the clock to finalise the 2025 budget by 1 October.
The Spanish government will present a progressive draft budget for 2025 next week, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE/S&D) announced on Wednesday, asserting that his coalition government will complete the three years left of its mandate amid opposi…
The French president will hold talks Monday with former Socialist PM Bernard Cazeneuve, seen as a front-runner for the job.
The Italian leader isn’t too eager to hang her hat with the Euroskeptic far right — at least not just yet.
The current proposal would break the previous defence spending record of 159 billion zlotys (€37 billion) in the 2024 budget.
Amid a deeply divided National Assembly, France’s new government leaders will face tough negotiations on the 2025 budget, with European Commission financial penalties looming if the country’s public finances do not improve.
Leftwing alliance urges Macron to appoint Lucie Castets as prime minister
The heads of Germany’s coalition government clinched a new agreement on the country’s fiscal budget for 2025, on Friday (16 August), reaching a compromise solution to the remaining sticking points that had emerged last month.
Despite being on holiday, German chancellor Olaf Scholz weighted in on a looming new crisis over the government’s budget, arguing that a legal assessment shows that additional loans can be used for infrastructure investment while circumventing the coun…
The finance minister cast doubt on a draft budget agreement for 2025, renewing a conflict that threatens to subvert Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government.
German leaders plan to halve aid to Ukraine just as Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election looks increasingly likely.
The battered three-party coalition’s fate depends on whether it can finalize a spending plan for 2025 without a major clash.
Germany’s three-party government coalition did not manage to reach an internal deal on the 2025 draft budget by Wednesday (3 July), which had previously been named as the deadline for an internal agreement, as differences over potential spending cuts p…
