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Explainer: What is the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy?

The EU has long been criticised for the generous subsidies it gives to its farmers. How is the money doled out, and how might the scheme be about to change?

20/07/2020

World News

Euroviews. Forget tying rule of law to the EU budget. It's better to add strings to EU funding later ǀ View

Angela Merkel is right to be concerned about fuelling support for populist authoritarians by tying EU budget funds to the rule of law. But that doesn't mean the EU can't punish such regimes financially further down the line.

17/07/2020

Europe News

EU's coronavirus recovery fund is 'an investment in Europe's economy'

"For Austria their second-biggest export destination is Italy. So if Italy is not in good shape, it has an immediate impact on the Austrian economy," said the EU's budget commissioner Johannes Hahn

11/06/2020

Europe News

The Brief: Where's the money coming from for the EU Recovery Fund?

A look into the ways Brussels can raise EU money to tackle the COVID-19 recession

04/06/2020

Europe News

COVID-19's 'deep impact' on the space industry

Europe's space industry could lose up to one billion euros due to the economic downturn. The impact could be felt in programmes that help to monitor climate change as well as data services.

02/06/2020

Economy

Explainer: how would EU countries apply for coronavirus recovery funding?

While the final figure is still subject to tough negotiations, we look at what conditions the European Commission is attaching to receiving rescue funds.

02/06/2020

Europe News

EU recovery fund's debt-pooling is massive shift for bloc

Politicians and experts are now pouring over the details of the EU's trillion-euro recovery package. While it was welcomed by France, Germany, Spain and Italy, other countries in the north of Europe still need some convincing.

28/05/2020

Europe News

Counting coronavirus funds: a look at EU's plans for the recovery

Ahead of Commission's announcement on the recovery fund and EU budget to fight the economic fallout of the pandemic, we look at what the EU has put forward so far to help European countries rebound from the crisis.

26/05/2020

Europe News

Analysis: Will Europe unite around the EU's coronavirus recovery plan?

Euronews' political editor Darren McCaffrey looks at the splits over the EU's coronavirus recovery plan.

25/05/2020

Europe News

Irish Finance Minister warns of damage to the European project if Merkel-Macron deal obstructed

Paschal Donohue says there would be “great difficulty” for the EU if “existing divergences” among member states are “exacerbated” by the impact of COVID-19.

20/05/2020

World News

Euroviews. The new EU budget poses an opportunity to mitigate the destabilising impacts of COVID-19 ǀ View

In a post-COVID-19 world, protecting the security of Europeans will depend on holistic strategies to address long-term, systemic threats.

06/05/2020

Europe News

EU leaders task Commission with pandemic recovery plan

While EU leaders asked the Commission to come up with a plan on the long-term recovery, they've signed off on a previously agreed 540 billion euro package to deal with the short term consequences of the economic downturn and insist it’s functioning by June 1st.

24/04/2020

World News

EU Commission to revise its budget proposal due to COVID-19 crisis

Debates on the EU budget were scheduled to continue after European leaders failed to reach an agreement in February, but the COVID-19 global pandemic has disrupted all plans.

28/03/2020

Europe News

EU budget stalemate: what happens next?

After a failed summit, the EU budget battle continues, but when will they meet again and what parts of the budget face the chop?

27/02/2020

Europe News

Watch again: Sassoli speaks amid tense EU budget summit

EU leaders are arguing in Brussels over the bloc's spending plan for the next seven years.

20/02/2020

World

'This EU budget proposal is bad,' Portugal's PM Costa tells Euronews

Portugal's PM António Costa is among leaders who do not want to see the EU's budget cut post-Brexit.

20/02/2020

Europe News

Budget battle as EU chiefs meet to thrash out long-term spending plans

It could get fiery: European leaders are meeting in Brussels to agree the EU's next long-term budget.

20/02/2020

Europe News

How Brexit has left the EU at a crossroads over its future spending

The EU budget battle has pitched the frugal rich against those received more than they put in from Brussels.

19/02/2020

France

Give me Green Deal funds or I'm not backing budget warns EU chief

The EU Commission President called for compromise as groups of member states including "Friends of Cohesion" and "Frugal Five" battle it out over what they should pay and receive.

12/02/2020

Economy

The work to stabilise the eurozone isn’t over. Reforms are necessary to avoid the abyss again ǀ View

Giving the EU its own resources is the only way to overcome country divisions on EU spending from national budgets.

02/12/2019