Dombrovskis pledges focus on budget, rules simplification to boost competitiveness
โThe EU budget will continue to be an important catalyst for European competitiveness. But we must make it simpler,โ he said.
โThe EU budget will continue to be an important catalyst for European competitiveness. But we must make it simpler,โ he said.
It was a “mistake” to side with the far right in yet another migration quarrel, top EPP lawmaker said.
Parliament demands an EU budget for 2025 that focuses on improving people’s lives, boosting competitiveness, and addressing current challenges.Committee on Budgets Source : ยฉ European Union, 2024 – EP
The Polish candidate also sought to reassure regional and local governments, currently worried about losing out from EU spending reforms.
The rapporteur for the 2025 EU budget will hold a press conference on Wednesday at 13:30 following the plenary vote on the EPโs stance on the EU budget for 2025.Committee on Budgets Source : ยฉ European Union, 2024 – EP
The upcoming interinstitutional negotiations on the EU budget for 2025 are likely to be tense.
An EU fraud investigation into a โฌ46 million waste treatment project remains stuck in bureaucratic gridlock.
The list, seen by Euractiv, would come with a โฌ500 billion price tag under the EU budget.
It is important to show strong signals to Putin that he should forget about testing the EU or NATO, says Kubilius.
Montenegro asked that member states also step up their financial contributions to the EU.
A French diplomat described the proposal as โan interesting option.โ
What began as a multilateral statement of support has morphed into a fragmented and precarious arrangement, plagued by internal political and legal wrangling.
A lack of clarity over the final beneficiaries of the RRF “is now a long-lasting issue,” says a vice-chair of the budget committee.
“The one-size-fits-all is not the correct answer,โ said Romanian MEP Siegfried Mureศan
In this episode, join host Giada Santana and economics and transport reporter Jonathan Packroff as they dive into MFFโs current challenges, the perspectives of regional stakeholders, and what the future might hold.
Member states will have more leeway to revise their recovery plans if they can reduce ‘administrative burden’.
Auditors found growing errors in the way the EU splashes its cash.
โWe should not punish regions for the mistakes of the national governments,โ one mayor said.
The fact that billions of euros were not spent following EU or national rules โdoes not mean that the money is effectively misspent,” ECA president said.
Aftermath of the European election and the looming German vote have stopped the bloc from getting much work done.
“It is a mega maxi bazooka program,” Director of Research at the CEPS Andrea Renda told Euractiv.
See who’s up for a grilling in the European Parliament on which days.
Brussels’ bid to take power away from regions is ‘not acceptable’ according to Vasco Alves Cordeiro.
Polandโs Piotr Serafin will face many challenges if he succeeds in becoming the new EU budget commissioner, while Italian and Dutch commissioners-designate Raffaele Fitto and Wopke Hoekstra are likely to be grilled the most during parliamentary hearing…
The man chosen to be the next budget commissioner will have to draw on all the skills he’s picked up over many years in Brussels.
The Commission president is promising to move quickly with far-reaching reforms. How credible is her plan?
It will be financed from future profits on frozen Russian state assets.
Trade, competition, fiscal policy and the EU budget are among the most sought-after prizes on offer in the new EU executive. Euronews examines who is lined up to control key posts, and which embarrassing revelations might trip them up.
The Hungarian government said that instead of paying a โฌ200 million fine, it should actually get more money for border control.
A blueprint to make the EU more competitive with the rest of the world is published on Monday. It’s likely to prove controversial.
Agreeing on one-off common debt issuance was hardly a Hamiltonian moment โ but substantially increasing the blocโs own resources may just bring us closer to one.
The EU needs a โmoderateโ increase in its long-term budget, Siegfried Mureศan, the newly appointed chief negotiator for the European Parliament on the bloc’s upcoming Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), told Euractiv on Friday (6 September).
EU policy thinktank Bruegel is hosting its annual summit on where legislation should go in the next five years. Check our live updates here for the key takeaways of the day
Sofia puts forward Ekaterina Zaharieva and Julian Popov.
Each of the major parties have put forward a candidate, with the interim prime minister yet to decide.
Nominee Apostolos Tzitzikostas wants to oversee “cohesion” policy.
European Parliament vice president wants a portfolio touching on investment.
EU governments are battling for their people to get roles linked to the economy.
The Hungarian leader has been able to build a coalition of like-minded allies who share his strategic goal โ creating โa Europe of nation states.โ
He will have to compete against Irish and Dutch candidates for an economics portfolio.
The accused had all worked on a massive corruption case tied to Prime Minister Robert Fico and his political allies.
The rising cost of transformative therapies, which can run into millions of euros for each treatment, has prompted calls for innovative funding solutions, including support from the EU budget.
The idea of having an EU budget, including for agriculture, based on political conditions and milestones, as is the case with the blocโs post-pandemic recovery fund, is “unacceptable,” the outgoing Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski told…
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Europe’s insurance sector became the latest to join the chorus of EU interest groups calling on the next Commission to foster a more pro-business regulatory framework – first and foremost, by following through with its pledge to slash reporting obligat…
Ursula von der Leyen walked a fine line in her speech to the European Parliament plenary on Thursday (18 July), signalling support for an enlarged EU budget and looser competition rules whilst remaining vague enough to appease both sides of the politic…
Thereโs no politically easy way to find the fiscal space to address the challenges the EU faces. And Franceโs political realities now compound the problem.
GERB, the party of former prime minister Boyko Borissov which won Bulgaria’s recent elections, proposed a government on Monday whose main task will be to rescue the โฌ12 billion promised to Bulgaria under the EU Recovery Fund and the EU budget.
Brussels has made similar deals with Tunisia, Mauritania and Turkey to curb irregular migration into the EU.
Everything now is just a euphemism for financial repression and austerity. That doesn’t stop politicians looking for magical alternatives.
The leader of France’s National Rally reignited market unease after hinting that a major fight with the EU is still on the cards.
The European Central Bank has estimated that massive cuts in eurozone budget spending would be needed to achieve the 60% debt-to-GDP ratio target by 2070.
Far right Rassemblement nationalโs (RN) President Jordan Bardella told business leaders on Thursday (20 June) he would cut Franceโs contribution to the EU budget by โโฌ2 to 3 billionโ should he be appointed prime minister after the snap elections โ thou…
Before talking about a new round of joint EU debt, the EU would need to reform its current spending priorities, including regional development and agricultural support, Ole Funke, coordinator for EU fiscal policy at the German Chancellery said.
Budapestโs snub of earlier ruling โconstitutes an unprecedented and exceptionally serious breach of EU law,โ the court said.
Banks will be able to apply for EU budget support when investing in equity funds active in Ukraine, von der Leyen said.
Before talking about new sources of income for the EU budget โ known as โown resourcesโ โ the EU should assess the efficiency of its current spending,ย Fabrizia Lapecorella, the deputy secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and D…
In his first and only offline campaign event, Dutch radical right politician Geert Wilders vows to change the EU from within.
But idea remains under discussion ahead of G7 summit next week.
Green politicians Franziska Brantner and Sven Giegold are seen as Olaf Scholz’s most likely next nominees if Ursula von der Leyen flops.
The bloc’s military powers are so weak that big names are likely to want a better Brussels post than defense chief.
The fabled Franco-German engine is sputtering โ meaning the next EU top jobs and political priorities are all to play for after next week’s election.
In effect, Dublin has abdicated responsibility of protecting the Europeโs northwestern borders.
French president said the spending splurge could be funded either by common borrowing or by using existing instruments.
On the eve of the EU election, France’s National Rally party sees it as too risky to team up with Alternative for Germany.
European Commission president seeks to replicate โsuccessโ of post-pandemic recovery fund
The Commission will assess if there is a need to incentivise EU countries to shorten the time for the reclamation of irregular payments, a spokesperson said after the European Court of Auditors (ECA) highlighted the lengthy process to return improper d…
The European Commission is too slow when it comes to retrieving misspent EU funds, the EU Court of Auditors said in a new report published on Tuesday (7 May), noting that it takes particularly long for money that goes into third countries.
Kyiv wants to free itself from relying on its allies for arms and ammunition, but needs cash to do so.
Europe’s rescue fund has nothing left to rescue. It could now become governments’ silver bullet for military investment instead.
EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said earlier this week that he had โa lot of sympathyโ for the idea of making all of the blocโs budget โperformance-basedโ. But what did he actually mean by this?
Twenty years after 10 countries in Central and Eastern Europe joined the EU, itโs time for Ukraine and Moldova to join the club too, commissioner argues.
The EU should expand its budget and consider linking all member state payments to structural reforms, EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Monday (29 April).
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The EUโs multibillion pandemic recovery fund is a โsuccess storyโ that European policymakers โshould not rush to roll backโ, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday.
Iliana Ivanova, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth shared with Euractiv in an interview her views on how to fill the gap in financing of science and innovation in the member states which stands at โฌ100 billion …
The European Parliament on Thursday granted discharge to the Commission, all decentralised agencies and the development funds.Committee on Budgetary Control Source : ยฉ European Union, 2024 – EP
A European wealth tax could raise funds nearly 50% greater than the entire annual EU budget, Oxfam reported on Thursday (11 April), just as political support for the policy seems poised to retrench amid the bloc’s anticipated shift to the right after J…
Commission’s top level tussle is a sign that political tensions are flaring ahead of European elections in June.
The French publicโs allegiance to the idea of Europe remains strong, but a a real understanding of the EU is weak โ which is why Le Pen’s de facto policy of dismantling it from the inside is poorly understood.
Cops said the organized crime group used “advanced technologies” including AI to produce false documents for laundering cash.
European voters are as unhappy as farmers with the blocโs protection of agriculture, accounting the largest slice of the EU budget.
Commission president wants to use a defense boost to help her get a second term.
Russia attacking Ukraine with drones, guided bombs and missiles, says president; Kaja Kallas says spending should rise to over 3% GDPThe EUโs foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said he will propose that the EU uses 90% of the revenues from Russia…
We estimate the total direct cost of Ukraine to current member states via the regular EU budget at โฌ19bn per year. But Ukraine’s feeble democratic institutions have been weakened by the war, writes Zsolt Darvas of Bruegel think-tank.
Ukraine’s potential accession into the European Union could have an impact of between โฌ110 billion and โฌ136 billion on the bloc’s seven-year budget, according to a new report by the Bruegel think tank.
French president says he does not want escalation but allies cannot โlook away and let things run their courseโ โ what we know on day 742See all our coverage of the war in UkraineEmmanuel Macron has urged Ukraineโs allies not to be โcowardsโ in support…
Mark Rutte fails to secure Hungary backing after Netherlands previously voiced concerns about democracy in the country. This live blog is closedAlong with the new strategy, the Commission has proposed a European Defence Industry Programme to โbridge fr…
MEPs approve long-term funding for Ukraine, the โStrategic Technologies for Europe Platformโ (STEP), and associated major changes to the multi-year EU budget.Committee on Foreign AffairsCommittee on BudgetsCommittee on Industry, Research and Energy Sou…
Europeans should have more say when it comes to spending the EU budget, as a way to boost citizens’ participation in EU policymaking, a panel of experts on democratic processes said during a Euractiv event on Thursday (22 February).
The former ECB chief has been tasked with producing a high-level report on the EUโs competitiveness.
Brussels and G7 could use money generated by the frozen funds to rebuild the war-struck country.
The European Parliament and member states reached an agreement early Saturday (10 February) on reforms to EU budgetary rules aimed at boosting investment while keeping spending under control.
The agreement on the EU’s hard-fought mid-term budget top-up between member states and the EU Parliament offers little to replace the bloc’s climate financing.
EU leaders on Thursday reached a deal to provide โฌ50 billion in aid to Ukraine โ with even the Hungarian prime minister on board.
The deal on Ukraine aid comes after a small group of leaders persuaded Hungary’s leader to drop his veto over the funding package.
To get approval for its budget, EU leaders could ask the Hungarian leader to once again leave the room.
The money the EU invests in global challenges abroad is the tangible manifestation of our European values in action, reflecting the international commitments the union has made, Andris Piebalgs, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Pascal Lamy, Neven Mimica and …
Viktor Orbรกnโs political director claims Brussels is โusing blackmail against Hungary like thereโs no tomorrowโ over aid for Ukraine. This live blog is closed Continue reading…