France, Germany lock horns over long-term EU budget
Daggers have been drawn over the European Union's next seven-year budget, with Germany and France at loggerheads over whether Brussels should make deep cuts in a battle increasingly expected to overshoot the end of the year.
France and Germany are at odds over the European Union's next seven-year budget. The two countries are in disagreement over whether Brussels should make deep cuts to the budget.
The European Commission has proposed a 2028-2034 budget worth nearly 2 trillion euros, an increase from the 2021-2027 budget of around 1.2 trillion euros. Germany, along with Austria, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, and Sweden, are pushing for cuts of several hundred billion euros.
France, on the other hand, argues that the continent needs sufficient means to match the rising challenges the 27-country bloc faces. French President Emmanuel Macron has spoken out against demands for massive cuts, saying "We need an ambitious European budget" and that they "must defend a much stronger European budget" to support EU priorities.
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