EU summit: Le Pen wants to delay decision on EU budget
The French presidential candidate will not be attending the meeting in Brussels. Nevertheless, she wants to influence the EU budget negotiations.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Rally party and presidential candidate, has stated that she would not accept an EU budget agreed upon before France's upcoming presidential election. She considers it would be a "democratic scandal" if a decision were made prior to the election. Le Pen wants negotiations on the EU's 2028-2034 budget to conclude after elections in France, Italy, Poland, and Spain.
The current target is to reach an agreement by the end of this year, but significant differences between member states make a breakthrough uncertain.
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