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Brussels \u2013 New multiannual budget: the proposal to increase funding receives initial approval from the European Parliament. With 26 votes in favour, 9 against and 5 abstentions, the Budget Committee<\/a> approved the European Parliament\u2019s position on the MFF 2028\u20132034, now under consideration by the plenary, with a vote scheduled for 29 April. The increase of around \u20ac200 billion compared to the European Commission proposal<\/a> has been confirmed<\/strong>. Specifically, an additional \u20ac139.1 billion is allocated to agriculture, \u20ac78.8 billion more to cohesion funds, \u20ac30 billion more to competitiveness, \u20ac3.2 billion more to immigration, and \u20ac25 billion more to research.<\/p>\n

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“We are proposing a European budget that is both sufficient and predictable for beneficiaries, addressing the shortcomings of the Commission\u2019s initial proposal,” comments Siegried Muresan<\/strong> (EPP), co-rapporteur for the budget measure and member of the Parliament\u2019s Committee on Budgets.<\/span><\/span> “Through a moderate 10 per cent increase, we are ensuring adequate resources for new priorities such as defence and competitiveness, whilst fully preserving key policies such as agriculture and cohesion,” he emphasises.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Budget Committee has approved a 10 per cent increase to the draft budget. The vote in the chamber is scheduled for 29 April<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":247030,"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":[25774,25681],"tags":[26025,29807,25755,33394],"class_list":["post-450450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-politics","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450450","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450451,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450450\/revisions\/450451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}