🧠 Need a refresher on what the EU's long-term budget, the #MFF is?
You’ll find the basics here:
🔹All you need to know about the EU’s long-term budget: europa.eu/!CJYCPq
🔹Parliament's dedicated site: eubudget.europarl.europa.eu
@eszterzalan.bsky.social
Press officer at the European Parliament. Only my views. And sometimes yours. Previously journo @euobs,@afp, Nepszabadsag.
🧠 Need a refresher on what the EU's long-term budget, the #MFF is?
You’ll find the basics here:
🔹All you need to know about the EU’s long-term budget: europa.eu/!CJYCPq
🔹Parliament's dedicated site: eubudget.europarl.europa.eu
🗓️ Coming up on next week’s plenary agenda in the Parliament on the post-2027 EU budget:
• #MFF debate – Wednesday morning
• #CAP debate – Thursday morning
📄 Draft agenda: europa.eu/!DnXCcN
📌Ahead of Commission's #MFF proposal, here’s a reminder of Parliament's position (adopted in May):
• Current 1% EU-27 GNI ceiling is insufficient
• No to national plans
• Mega-funds not fit for purpose
• Strong parliamentary accountability essential
🔗Details: europa.eu/!jk4mm3
Green Claims Directive: EP co-rapporteurs hold a press conference at 15.15
Following the Commission’s announcement on Friday it intends to withdraw the legislative proposal, the Council has decided to cancel the trilogue scheduled for Monday
Details ⤵️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
🚨On 25 June at 15:15 CET, Parliament's #MFF co-rapporteurs
MEPs Carla Tavares and Siegfried Mureșan will take part in a roundtable on "The next EU long-term budget: Spending challenges and revenue options", organised by the EP Think Tank.
Registration by 23 June.
Details ▶️ europa.eu/!mctx66
What is the life of an 11-year-old boy worth?
It’s a question we have been grappling with in Brussels since the horrific events of Monday evening, when a small boy was killed under the wheels of a police car in Parc Elisabeth.
BN #105: An Elisabethan Tragedy
open.substack.com/pub/brussels...
For own resources nerds! 👓
You'll find the presentations of the experts who presented their views today on OR to the Parliament's Budgets Committee here ▶️ europa.eu/!x4KkGv
Missed it? Rewatch the workshop here ⤵️
europa.eu/!CXvm9k
This week on the European Parliament's Budgets Committee:
- @piotrserafin.bsky.social will present Commission's draft budget for 2026.
- MEPs will vote on opinion on the Draghi Report and the Capital Markets Union.
More in the draft agenda👇
europa.eu/!Dw7Cnh
Follow live👇
europa.eu/!xW3PXQ
📢 Calling all journalists!
Submissions are now open for the 5th edition of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism.
Each year, Parliament awards this prize to recognise outstanding journalism that promotes or defends core EU values.
🔗 Learn more in our press release: europa.eu/!nhRHV7
Parliament’s priorities for the EU’s post-2027 long-term budget
Parliament’s vision and demands for the EU’s 2028-2034 budget are set out in a resolution adopted by MEPs on Wednesday.
Details ⬇️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
🤔Find out more about how the EU's long-term budget works, how it is adopted, who are the key figures in the Parliament, and check the glossary of key budget terms ➡️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
23.04.2025 09:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today the Budgets Committee backed MEPs Mureșan and Tavares's report calling for a significantly more ambitious long-term EU budget (MFF) that can deliver on EU citizens’ rising expectations against a rapidly changing global backdrop.
23➕/ 9➖/ 2⭕️
Details ⤵️
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
“Trade is an exclusive competence of the Union and Parliament stands fully behind the @ec.europa.eu in its response against US tariffs” Bernd Lange, full statement of the Trade Committee Chair 🔗 europa.eu/!JDXXfR. Importance of trade between EU and US in recent years ⤵️
12.03.2025 09:08 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0🚨Just started
Trade MEPs hear from Leopoldo Rubinacci on 🇪🇺-🇺🇸trade relations, including recently announced US tariffs on European steel and aluminum exports and the EU's response.
Draft agenda➡️ europa.eu/!rWvhBR
Tune in now ⤵️
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
The President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola.
As someone who grew up on an island in the Mediterranean, I’m no stranger to blue skies.
But this Blue Sky is different 😃. Here, I’m new.
So as I do my first post, I look forward to connect, interact & continue to advance democracy. This is what we do at the European Parliament.
Watch this space.
🗳️The European Parliament approved the second von der Leyen Commission. See how each MEP voted here ⤵️
www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...