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EU Dangles €45bn To Win Farmers’ Backing for Mercosur Deal

TEC News / AFP January 6, 2026

Brussels is offering farmers early access to billions in funding as it tries to overcome opposition to a long-delayed trade deal with South America.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (R) speaks as European Council President António Costa (C) and Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen listen during a press conference after the European Council meeting in Brussels, Belgium on December 19, 2025.

Small Victory for Common Sense: European Council Decides Against Using Russian Assets To Finance Ukraine

Javier Villamor December 19, 2025

Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia opted out of a mega loan to Kyiv that will impose yet another burden on European taxpayers.

The Berlaymont building in Brussels, seat of the European Commission

Commission Planning To “Double the Spending with Half the Transparency,” Experts Warn

Javier Villamor December 11, 2025

The new EU budget may become a “strategic instrument of political ambition” that seeks to centralize power in Brussels.

EU Pushes Billion-Euro Renovations of Headquarters Despite Budget Tensions

Javier Villamor October 23, 2025

The reforms seek to improve efficiency and security but come amid severe financial constraints.

Court of Auditors Member Warns: EU Opacity Is Fueling Euroskepticism

Javier Villamor October 17, 2025

Finland’s member of the European Court of Auditors denounces the lack of transparency in the EU’s budget management and warns of its political consequences.

Brussels Blackmail: ‘If You Don’t Focus on Our Agenda, You Won’t Be Funded’

Javier Villamor September 12, 2025

The EU Commission’s new budget framework will only finance projects aligned with what it has decided are “EU priorities.”

A sign reading “Farmers for Europe” is seen on a tractor during a demonstration in Brussels called by the Farmers Defence Force to protest against European regulations on June 4, 2024.

EPP Warns of Agriculture Collapse After Years Backing Flawed CAP

Javier Villamor August 28, 2025

The European People’s Party has branded the EU’s draft budget a disaster for agriculture, even though it backed earlier CAP reforms that raised costs for farmers.

(L-R) Former Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, and former Czech PM Andrej Babiš

PM Orbán: The Visegrad Four Will Be Back and Block the Current EU Budget Proposal

Tamás Orbán August 1, 2025

Within two years, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary will all be led by sovereigntist governments, and together will be able to block “Ukraine budget,” the Hungarian PM predicted.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Turnberry, Scotland on July 27, 2025

Did von der Leyen Go Too Far This Time?

Pieter Cleppe August 1, 2025

A supranational bureaucracy is trying to increase its own enormous budget while doing next to nothing to address fraudulent and erroneous EU spending.

EU’s Budget Proposal: More Money, Less Accountability—Polish MP Zbigniew Kuźmiuk

Artur Ciechanowicz July 28, 2025

“The intention is for all funds to be subjected to what is euphemistically termed ‘conditionality’… no sovereign nation should accept such an arrangement.”

Tag: EU budget

EU Dangles €45bn To Win Farmers’ Backing for Mercosur Deal

Small Victory for Common Sense: European Council Decides Against Using Russian Assets To Finance Ukraine

Commission Planning To “Double the Spending with Half the Transparency,” Experts Warn

EU Pushes Billion-Euro Renovations of Headquarters Despite Budget Tensions

Court of Auditors Member Warns: EU Opacity Is Fueling Euroskepticism

Brussels Blackmail: ‘If You Don’t Focus on Our Agenda, You Won’t Be Funded’

EPP Warns of Agriculture Collapse After Years Backing Flawed CAP

PM Orbán: The Visegrad Four Will Be Back and Block the Current EU Budget Proposal

Did von der Leyen Go Too Far This Time?

EU’s Budget Proposal: More Money, Less Accountability—Polish MP Zbigniew Kuźmiuk

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