{"id":466941,"date":"2026-10-06T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T09:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/06\/bilancio-pluriennale-parlamento-e-commissione-avvertono-i-leader-sui-tagli-eccessivi\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:30:24","slug":"multi-annual-budget-parliament-and-commission-warn-leaders-about-excessive-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/06\/multi-annual-budget-parliament-and-commission-warn-leaders-about-excessive-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-annual budget: Parliament and Commission warn leaders about “excessive” cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Beware of cuts \u2013 excessive ones, that is. On the delicate issue of the EU\u2019s multiannual financial framework (MFF 2028\u20132034), heads of state and government have received a joint warning from the Commission and the Parliament. It is not a new warning, but one centred on a word that seems to be becoming the linchpin of the whole issue: “excessive”. In the plenary debate on the budget ahead of the European Council summit \u2013 which is seen as decisive for the political negotiations on the dossier \u2013 a path seems to be emerging that favours cuts, provided they remain below the levels feared by member states’ leaders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>, was the first to highlight the issue: “I would like to caution against large cuts.<\/strong> It would risk cutting deep into critical priorities that we all together have agreed on.\u201d This was the first statement by a member of the European People\u2019s Party (EPP) against excessive cuts to resources. The Vice-Chair of the EPP Group, Sigfried Muresan, also supports a position of allocating less money than the Commission’s proposal<\/a>, provided the cuts are limited: \u201cThis Parliament will not be in a position to approve a budget with excessive cuts.<\/strong>\u201d Ultimately, he noted, \u201cthe budget must be sufficient; otherwise, the challenges we face will not go away.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/06\/19\/multi-annual-budget-october-will-be-the-moment-of-truth\/<\/a><\/p>\n

A moderate, but not excessive, reduction in the budget could be the way out of the inter-institutional standoff, given that at the level of Heads of State and Government, the EPP dominates, with 12 out of 27 leaders<\/a> (Austria, Cyprus, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Hungary). Contributing less to the common budget is certainly a choice that meets the needs of Italy, a country with high public debt, and of the Dutch government led by the liberal Rob Jetten, which is nevertheless mindful of spending.<\/p>\n

 The Socialists (S&D), led by their group chair Iratxe Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>, are trying to keep the stakes high: \u201cIt\u2019s impossible to do more with less,” she insisted, proposing an agreement on new own resources \u2013 revenue for the Commission that does not affect national contributions. \u201cWe need a Europe with its own resources<\/strong>, funded by the major digital groups, online gambling and cryptocurrencies.\u201d For the Socialists, the compromise could be this: to cut the proposed two thousand billion euros, but not indiscriminately, while in return introducing new EU taxes. In this regard, according to Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez, \u201cwe need a fair Europe, one that ensures that energy companies pay their fair share on windfall profits<\/strong>, using this revenue to create a social voucher to help families cover the costs of electricity, heating, fuel and essential foodstuffs.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 From the Greens\u2019 benches, co-chair Terry Reintke<\/strong> warns: \u201cIf you think you can turn up after the fact with a take-it-or-leave-it document, then it will be a disaster.<\/strong>\u201d The Greens\u2019 representative points out that \u201cthis European Parliament is different from the previous one,\u201d and so approval cannot be taken for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the sensitive issue of the MFF 2028\u20132034, a compromise appears to be taking shape, involving reductions \u2013 albeit modest ones \u2013 in exchange for more new own resources. The Greens: \u201cIf the Council turns up after the fact with a take-it-or-leave-it document, then it will be a disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":466923,"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":[25755,18836,26027,26656,5612,13114,3926],"class_list":["post-466941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-iratxe-garcia-perez","tag-vertice-dei-leader-en","tag-budget-pluriennial-en","tag-plenary-session","tag-ue","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466941","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=466941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466942,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466941\/revisions\/466942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}