
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.

With its latest budget, the EU Commission shows off its creeping super-state agenda. If this budget is passed, only a full-fledged tax system remains to complete the project.

It’s going to be a tough sell to member states to provide €800 billion more for the total budget, but still cutting cohesion and agricultural funds by 25-30% and sending it to Kyiv.