{"id":408788,"date":"2024-11-27T17:06:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/11\/27\/bilancio-ue-2025-200-miliardi-metsola\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:23:01","slug":"game-closed-on-2025-eu-budget-about-e200-billion-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/11\/27\/game-closed-on-2025-eu-budget-about-e200-billion-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"Game closed on 2025 EU budget, about \u20ac200 billion planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; A <strong>\u20ac199.4 billion budget, 10 billion more than in 2024<\/strong>. The European Parliament puts an end to the discussions on the EU budget for next year: the game ends\u00a0with the overwhelming yes of the Strasbourg Chamber\u2014418 votes in favour, 185 against and 67 abstentions\u2014and with <strong>Roberta Metsola<\/strong> signing the financial document at the hemicycle. &#8220;Signed, sealed, delivered,&#8221; exulted the EU Parliament\u00a0President.<\/p>\n<p>The complicated agreement with member states, which came on Saturday, Nov. 16, marks a victory for the European Parliament, which &#8220;succeeded in defending an ambitious budget&#8221; for 2025. As denounced by the Democratic Party&#8217;s head of delegation in Brussels, <strong>Nicola Zingaretti<\/strong>, <strong>most governments were pushing to &#8220;cut the budget by about a billion and a half<\/strong>.&#8221; In the end, the EU Parliament&#8217;s negotiating team brokered a deal\u00a0with the Council\u2014based on what was approved in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/10\/23\/epp-sends-von-der-leyen-majority-adrift-on-budget-votes-united-with-extreme-right-but-loses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October<\/a>\u2014and actually obtained \u20ac230.7 million more than the Commission&#8217;s initial <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_24_3247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">draft<\/a>, focusing on key initiatives such as research, health, education, young farmers, coordination of social security schemes, crisis response for natural disasters, climate action, humanitarian aid, military mobility, and border management.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-o-mail-quote-node=\"1\" data-o-mail-quote=\"1\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Signed. Sealed. Delivered.<\/p>\n<p>We have an EU budget for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>One that responds to people&#8217;s concerns and priorities.<\/p>\n<p>A flexible budget that invests in a competitive, safe and prosperous Europe.<\/p>\n<p>And that prepares our continent for ongoing and future crises. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NSu5ZuLJaU\">pic.twitter.com\/NSu5ZuLJaU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Roberta Metsola (@EP_President) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EP_President\/status\/1861753492739694917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Besides this additional funding, the 2025 budget will benefit from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20241111IPR25334\/eu-budget-2025-deal-ep-reinforces-eu-programmes-and-manages-borrowing-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>important increases from previous savings<\/u><\/a>, including <strong>\u20ac422 million for Erasmus+ funds for student and professional mobility and \u20ac20 million for the Horizon Europe <\/strong>research program (for the latter, the total comes to 12.7 billion). &#8220;Little big signals that confirm that it is important to be in the European Parliament and do so with clear ideas and a desire for change,&#8221; Zingaretti claimed again. Among the Italians, the Lega, 5-Star Movement, and Green and Left Alliance delegations have\u00a0opposed it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">In general, substantial portions of next year&#8217;s joint budget\u2014inscribed within the\u00a0<strong>Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027<\/strong>\u2014are earmarked for agriculture and cohesion policies (about 54 and 49 billion, respectively).<\/span>\u00a0Then, there are <strong>guarantees for more than \u20ac4 billion to support Ukraine,<\/strong>\u00a0\u20ac13.5 billion for research and innovation, and \u20ac16 billion for international cooperation programs. <strong>\u20ac4.8 billion<\/strong> will be allocated for <strong>migration and border management<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px;\">The total budget for 2025 is \u20ac199.4 billion in commitments, while payments are set at \u20ac155.21 billion. &#8220;A flexible budget that invests in a competitive, secure, and prosperous Europe. This prepares our continent for current and future crises,&#8221; is Roberta Metsola&#8217;s assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, President Roberta Metsola signed the financial document after formal approval from the EU Parliament. Ten billion more than 2024, Zingaretti (PD): &#8220;Saved Erasmus and more from EU governments&#8217; cuts of 1.5 billion&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":408683,"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],"tags":[25893,28535,27103,25755,27163,26719,26297,25759,25789],"class_list":["post-408788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-budget-2025-en","tag-bilancio-ue-en","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-mff-2021-2027-en","tag-mobilita-en","tag-mobility","tag-roberta-metsolaat","tag-ukrainian-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408788","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\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408788"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410136,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408788\/revisions\/410136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}