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EU budget 2025: Countries want less than Commission

by AI | 18.Jul 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Almost 200 billion euros is what the EU Commission wants to spend in 2025 – mainly for support to Ukraine, agriculture, and structurally weak regions. The EU countries want to spend less.

While the European Commission wants to spend around 200 billion euros next year, the EU member states want to tighten their belts. Photo: BTA

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Brussels – The EU countries want to spend significantly less in the coming budget year than proposed by the European Commission. The ambassadors of the states agreed in Brussels that 191.53 billion euros should be planned for next year’s budget, according to a statement from the countries. According to the EU Commission’s wishes, the 2025 budget should amount to 199.7 billion euros.

Countries pursue a cautious approach

Overall, the countries pursued a cautious approach, it said. It is important that the 2025 budget plan continues to express the EU’s solidarity with the Ukrainian population and responds to the associated crises.

The position still needs to be formally established and will then serve as the basis for negotiations with the European Parliament on the 2025 budget plan. Last year, countries and Parliament agreed on 189.4 billion euros for the 2024 budget. 

The plan for 2025 will be the fifth under the so-called Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for the period 2021-2027. The community budget amounts to around 1.1 trillion euros. Germany, as the largest net contributor to the Union, provides almost a quarter of the funds. The federal government emphasizes that Germany also benefits from the EU internal market as no other European economy does. (July 17)

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