
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 Commission aims to finalize the financial framework before possible political changes in major member states.

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