“Historic Move: EU Parliament Demands Overhaul of Budget Plan”
Major political groups in the European Parliament have launched an unprecedented challenge to the European Commission, demanding radical changes to its €2 trillion budget proposal or threatening to block negotiations on the next seven-year EU financial framework. The extraordinary joint letter, delivered this week, criticizes the Commission’s plan covering the period 2028–2034. Parliament Outlines Seven Key Demands MEPs have set out seven specific amendment requests, with the most controversial focused on the so-called “National and Regional Partnership Plans,” which would concentrate nearly half of EU funds under centralized national control. The letter warns that the proposal risks fragmentation, reduced solidarity, and the funding of 27 disparate national plans. Parliamentarians specifically call for the elimination of a single fund per member state and insist on separating agricultural and cohesion policies, which the Commission had proposed to combine into an €865 billion...