
EU Can’t Agree How To Pay for Its Growing Budget
MEPs are backing new priorities—from defence to competitiveness—but can’t agree on how to fund them.

MEPs are backing new priorities—from defence to competitiveness—but can’t agree on how to fund them.

The reaction of European ministers and diplomats after Viktor Orbán’s defeat confirms that, without a state willing to use the veto, the European Union will move to concentrate ever more political power at the centre.

The European Court of Justice is preparing a substantive legal basis for potentially unlimited interference in the laws of member states.

Speakers at the MCC Budapest Summit argued that the West faces growing demographic, political, and geopolitical pressures and called for renewed emphasis on national sovereignty and democratic accountability.