The Commission Communication on The road to the next multiannual financial framework published in February 2025 put forward several proposals for the reform of the MFF structure prior to the formal legislative proposal now pencilled in for July 2025. For the Commission, the key priority is the scale of the budget and the means to finance what it sees as inevitably greater expenditure in the coming programming period. It notes in bold print on page one of the Communication that Europe needs to square the circle: “there cannot be an EU budget fit for our ambitions and notably ensuring the reimbursement of NextGenerationEU, and, at the same time, stable national financial contributions without introducing new own resources”.… Read the rest
Fitting the CAP into the next MFF long-term budget
