Commissioner von der Leyen’s budget proposal is rejected by Merz’s Germany.
Ursula von der Leyen wants to centralize European power and money in Brussels.
After surviving a motion of censure in the European Parliament, Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen has noticeably lost a lot of political pull – but not her will to make the EU bigger and costlier to the struggling nations of the old continent.
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As she rolls out her budget proposal for 2028-2034, she immediately faces harsh opposition from her native country, Germany.
Politico reported:
“’A comprehensive increase in the EU budget is unacceptable at a time when all member states are making considerable efforts to consolidate their national budgets’, said Stefan Kornelius, spokesperson for Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government in Berlin late Wednesday [16]. ‘We will therefore not be able to accept the Commission’s proposal’.”
Many other leaders have also rejected the budget proposal.
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The central budget of €1.816 trillion would be a major increase in the EU’s spending power, and comes with three new tax proposals on electric waste, tobacco products and ‘high-turnover companies’.
“‘We also do not support the additional taxation of companies proposed by the EU Commission’, [German spokesman] Kornelius said in Berlin. ‘We must maintain the Commission’s reform approach and the budget’s focus on new priorities. This course is the right one to make Europe strong for the future’, he added.”
Merz rejects the Commissioner plans for the 2028-2034 EU budget.
Chancellor Merz has long argued that EU spending has to be made efficient, rather than increased.
“’We [must] reorganize the priorities in the European budget’, the conservative leader said late last month. ‘Additional tasks cannot always be linked to additional expenditure… and that is the difficult task we now face’.”
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