{
  "id": 14544262,
  "title": "EU summit: Le Pen wants to delay decision on EU budget",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/eu-gipfeltreffen-le-pen-will-entscheidung-uber-eu-haushalt-bremsen",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-14T21:18:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/international/eu-gipfeltreffen-le-pen-will-entscheidung-ueber-eu-haushalt-bremsen/100262335.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "The French presidential candidate will not be attending the meeting in Brussels. Nevertheless, she wants to influence the EU budget negotiations.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}