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Europe News

Brussels asks for more money for Ukraine and to plug budget gaps

More money is needed to maintain funding for the war in Ukraine, as well as the bloc's migration policy.

20/06/2023

Europe News

Linking rule of law respect to EU funds 'is a red line for MEPs'

The European Parliament (EP) is currently locked in negotiations with the European Council over approving the bloc's €1.8 trillion budget.

29/10/2020

Europe News

Rule of law to be important part of EU summit talks, says Reynders

The EU has been trying for years to get some countries to respect basic rules like media freedom and independence of the judiciary without success. One of the proposals on the table at the summit is to cut funding to countries found breaching rule of law principles.

17/07/2020

Economy

EU budget: Why you should care about the negotiations

The Multiannual Financial Framework being discussed by European leaders might seem a very far political fight but it has very concrete impacts in the European Citizen's lives. Here are the basics.

21/02/2020

Europe News

EU crunch summit - the stakes

Three years on from the vote which shocked Europe and the world. The Union Flag still flies here at the seat of EU power. Three British Prime Ministers have grappled with Brexit, our political editor guides you through the issues.

16/10/2019

World News

More than just a budget: Europe's financial future

The EU budget: it's full of dry, impenetrable figures and indecipherable Euro-jargon, no? Well, not this time. The Commission is using it to determine the shape of the European future, and there is more revolution in there than you might at first think.

03/05/2018

Europe News

The EU's smaller farmers fear subsidy cuts in the CAP budget review

Brexit is forcing a subsidy rethink as the EU cash pot shrinks, and with the Common Agricultural Policy the EU's biggest spender, cuts are on the horizon.

01/05/2018