Euroquestions #101 | What’s in the EU budget proposal and what should come next?

The next EU budget must square a near-impossible circle: manage the phase-out of NextGenerationEU funds, cover €24 billion a year in debt repayments, and respond to mounting demands on competitiveness, resilience, and defence. The Commission has now put forward a surprisingly ambitious proposal – but one that is also politically fragile. A recent paper co published by the Jacques Delors Institute and the Delors Centre of Berlin takes a deeper look at the Commission’s proposal for the next Multiannual Financial Framework and suggests some principles that, according to the authors, should guide the upcoming negotiations

To present the paper we have the pleasure to welcome Eulalia Rubio, Senior Research Fellow in economic affairs at the Jacques Delors Institute and co-author of “Ripe for Reform – What’s in the EU Budget Proposal and What Should Come Next” with our colleagues of the Jacques Delors Centre in Berlin.