Far-Right Victory Seen as Clear Warning for EU Budget Talks
The possibility of a far-right party leading a German state for the first time since 1945 offers EU governments the starkest warning yet about the urgency of agreeing on the bloc’s seven-year budget. Sunday’s regional election in Saxony-Anhalt gives European diplomats reason to sound the alarm over how divisions among member states could worsen next year. With 2027 set to bring elections in France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Poland, Greece, Estonia, and Slovakia, the prospect of more eurosceptic voices gaining power with mandates to make the EU cheaper and weaker focuses attention on securing a budget deal before year’s end, four EU diplomats and officials told POLITICO.
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The High-Stakes Fight for Senate Majority ControlEveryone understands the obvious negative consequences of a delay in adopting and implementing the CFM [multiannual financial framework, the seven-year budget]. Budget negotiations, which must be agreed by all 27 governments, have been stalled for months. Neither of the two main groups of countries — those wanting the EU to spend more and those wanting it to spend less — has seen an advantage in backing down so far. But while at the European level, which added urgency for France to reach a deal before elections, internal pressures complicate matters. Macron, whose far-right opponents propose massive cuts to the EU’s own resources, is under pressure to secure a deal that does not worsen France’s national economic budgets.
Diplomats Stress Consequences of Delaying the Multiannual Financial Framework
He supports new taxes, which could be known as „own resources,” as a way to fund the EU, but the European Commission wants the EU’s biggest budget priorities to become, but the largest share of those who want to fulfill their budget priorities is the security budget, but the largest share of those who want to fulfill their priorities is the European budget, the European Commission, he said.
