{"id":438975,"date":"2025-10-30T18:13:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/10\/30\/la-maggioranza-ursula-contro-ursula-lettera-dei-capigruppo-contro-il-quadro-finanziario-pluriennale\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:22:51","slug":"the-ursula-majority-against-ursula-group-leaders-letter-against-the-multiannual-financial-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/10\/30\/the-ursula-majority-against-ursula-group-leaders-letter-against-the-multiannual-financial-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"“The “Ursula Majority” against Ursula. Group leaders’ letter against the Multiannual Financial Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – All against the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)<\/strong><\/a> proposed by the European Commission for the seven-year period 2028\u20132034. The “Ursula majority” lines up the guns against the Commission President herself in a letter that makes clear the Parliament’s dissatisfaction<\/strong><\/span>. The document was signed today by all the majority group leaders: Populars<\/strong> (EPP), Socialists<\/strong> (S&D), Liberals<\/strong> (Renew), and Greens<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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European Commission unveils an enormous \u20ac2 trillion EU budget from 2028-2034<\/p>\n

The EU Commission has adopted the proposal for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) — the budget for 2028-2034.<\/p>\n

The new MFF is a big increase from 2020’s \u20ac1.21 trillion.<\/p>\n

“It is more\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/UR0YJCsP20<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 EU Made Simple (@EU_Made_Simple) July 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nothing is quite right<\/h3>\n

The crux of the argument can already be deduced from the first lines: “The European Parliament rejects the proposal of the National and Regional Partnership Plans in its current form and calls for an amended proposal to start negotiations<\/strong>,” the leaders write in the note. The issue with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is the manner of distributing the money<\/strong> under the plan for agriculture (CAP) and the cohesion plan, which are merged<\/span>. In addition, the group leaders denounce a diminution of the Parliament’s role<\/strong> that could create a democratic deficit<\/strong> and call for greater severity<\/strong> toward<\/span> states that do not play by the rules.<\/p>\n

The “democratic deficit”<\/h3>\n

Accusations already known but summarised this time in a single motion of intent. The main point is the novelty that the executive body plans to introduce: centralised resource distribution<\/strong><\/span>. To this, MEPs respond with the rejection of “a <\/span>Union \u00e0 la carte<\/strong>“<\/span>, where each state manages EU funds autonomously. This would lead to <\/span>fragmentation, loss of solidarity, and distortions of the single market<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The idea put forward by the Commission president is to simplify and cut corners, modifying that transmission belt of funds<\/strong> from Brussels to local authorities. In the new plan, the money would no longer go from the Union to the territory, but from the Union to national governments<\/strong>. The money would be distributed, for the most part, through the mechanism “money for reform<\/strong>,” <\/strong>which would cut the Parliament out of the decision-making process<\/strong><\/span>. This is where the MEPs see the “democratic deficit<\/strong>.” <\/p>\n

The elected body calls for greater “involvement in the approval and modification of national plans,” aiming to play a role in<\/strong><\/span> “democratic control and transparency.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

PAC and Cohesion<\/h3>\n

The most political point, however, for the members of the EU Parliament, remains the “unacceptable” cuts<\/strong> (of around 20 per cent) to the agricultural (CAP) and cohesion funds, merged into a single plan that “reduces their effectiveness.” <\/p>\n

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The President of the European Committee of the Regions, Kata T\u00fctt\u0151 [Brussels, 20 February 2025, 164th plenary session of the Committee of the Regions. \u00a9 European Union \/ Claudio Centoze]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Silent Commission<\/h3>\n

The Commission is, for the time being, tight-lipped and does not open the door to changes in the draft<\/strong>. Speaking today, budget spokesman Balazs Ujvari<\/strong>, said that the institution is “ready for dialogue with the other co-legislators. We have to understand what their needs are<\/strong>.” It is a pity that the Parliament’s line has remained the same for months, and no change of course<\/strong> has been<\/span> reported from the Berlaymont Palace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parliament does not like the way the money is distributed and their political role is diminished. MEPs consider the separation of agricultural and cohesion funds to be “non-negotiable”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7891,"featured_media":377089,"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":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","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_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","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[31262,27088,29450,26655,31277],"class_list":["post-438975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-fondi-di-coesione-en","tag-majority-ursula-en","tag-financialframework-pluriennial-en","tag-pac-en-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438975","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\/7891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438976,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438975\/revisions\/438976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

“Behind the renationalisation of cohesion and the CAP, there is a specific political design: to weaken the Union by taking voice and resources away from regions and municipalities<\/strong>, commented the MEP from the Partito Democratico Nicola Zingaretti<\/strong>. The President of the European Committee of the Regions<\/b><\/a>, Kata T\u00fctt\u0151<\/b>, echoes this sentiment: “By recentralising power, Europe risks losing the trust and involvement of the people who make things work: mayors, regional presidents, local communities. The unbundling of the two largest budget packages was considered a “non-negotiable<\/a>” element<\/strong> by the Parliament, the institution that ultimately has to approve the plan.<\/p>\n