{"id":389669,"date":"2024-09-13T13:28:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T11:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/09\/13\/negoziati-bilancio-2025-erasmus-horizon\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T13:06:15","slug":"tug-of-war-begins-between-european-parliament-and-member-states-over-the-2025-budget-cuts-to-erasmus-and-horizon-in-the-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/09\/13\/tug-of-war-begins-between-european-parliament-and-member-states-over-the-2025-budget-cuts-to-erasmus-and-horizon-in-the-crosshairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tug-of-war begins between European Parliament and member states over the 2025 budget: cuts to Erasmus and Horizon in the crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The battle over the budget<\/strong> for Erasmus and Horizon is coming to Strasbourg<\/strong>. During the upcoming plenary session (Sept. 16-19), MEPs will discuss the position\u00a0on negotiations on the 2025 budget,<\/strong> expected to be heated. Starting with the response to the Council’s proposal<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0cut funding<\/strong> for exchange and research programs, which the European Parliament wants to reject (or at least scale back).<\/p>\n

In July<\/a>, Member States<\/strong> proposed to cut a total of 8.17 billion<\/strong> euros from the EU budget for next year<\/strong>, including 295 million from the Erasmus<\/strong> program, which allows university students and young workers from the Union to live for a few months in one of the participating countries. However, the Horizon<\/strong> program, the flagship EU scientific research<\/strong>, would also receive 400 million<\/strong> less with the proposal of\u00a0the national governments.<\/p>\n

It is not certain if\u00a0this will happen; or better, it is more likely that from the inter-institutional negotiations<\/strong> on the EU budget for next year — which will begin in November\u00a0<\/strong>— a compromise <\/strong>will emerge between the demands of the Council and those of the European Parliament (the two entities that, Treaties in hand, define the EU budget), which do\u00a0not want to make such drastic cuts<\/strong>. On Wednesday (Sept. 18), during the plenary session in Strasbourg that will mark the resumption of work after the summer recess, members will discuss<\/a>\u00a0the position to be adopted<\/strong> by the House in the tug-of-war with the member states, which should then be approved\u00a0formally in October<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“Every year, the Council<\/strong> uses a similar justification<\/strong> to reduce program allocations<\/strong> or to limit programmed reinforcements<\/strong>, even though the procedural and budgetary circumstances and the social, economic, and geopolitical context have changed considerably,” said rapporteur Victor Negrescu<\/strong> (S&D, Romania), adding that this approach “promotes incomprehension<\/strong>.” For his\u00a0colleague, France’s Emma Rafowicz,<\/strong> who is vice-chair of the Education and Culture (Cult)\u00a0<\/strong>committee, the Social Democrats<\/a> are “stunned” and “shocked”\u00a0<\/strong>by the boldness of the chancelleries. And they promise to fight.<\/p>\n

The European Parliament defined\u00a0its priorities for fiscal year 2025<\/strong> in March<\/a>, calling for putting the twin\u00a0and digital transitions<\/strong>, competitiveness<\/strong>, inclusiveness,<\/strong> and security<\/strong> at the center of the Union’s spending. The next annual budget will see the entry into force of the revised seven-year budget (technically called the Multi-Year Financial Framework<\/strong>), approved in February<\/a>, and it will have to begin to consider the question of how to repay the debt taken out with\u00a0NextGenerationEu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Strasbourg, MEPs will begin discussing the Chamber’s position, to be adopted next month ahead of negotiations with the Council scheduled for November. Among other things, national governments want to reduce funding for Erasmus (295 million) and Horizon (400 million)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":389634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705,25713],"tags":[25892,28535,28985,27072,25755],"class_list":["post-389669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-culture","tag-budget-2025-en","tag-erasmus-one-2","tag-council-ue-en","tag-news-parliament-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389669"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390463,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389669\/revisions\/390463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}