Poland promises to veto the migrant relocations, Hungary questions Brussels’s extra-budgetary requests, and others keep worrying about the possibility of a resurgent Wagner coming out of Belarus. All in one day.
Ukraine will receive the biggest share in “financial support with loans and guns,” Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said, adding that in the future, the EU “will have to pay more on our global interests.”
Balancing geopolitical ambitions with budgetary realities, the EU not only keeps existing foreign missions but also tries to add new ones, while calling for 40% female participation and 100% member state-funded personnel.
The more a tax system relies on financial markets, the more volatile and unpredictable those tax revenues will become. There is no doubt that the U.S. government is experiencing that in real time in 2023.
The first target of the Hungarian parliament’s adopted budget is to sustain the regulated utilities price scheme, the second is to strengthen its military defense.
Austria’s federal government has announced relief for Austrians suffering from inflation and rising energy prices. Opponents criticize the package as “a drop in the bucket.”
