Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-000691/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Mathilde Androuët (PfE)
Some months ago, the Commission announced an overhaul of the multiannual financial framework 2028-2034, a copy of which has already been published[1]. It appears that the document contains an unsolvable ‘budgetary trilemma’. The EU is expected to provide considerable financing to cover the increase in strategic spending – the green transition, digital challenge and defence of and support for Ukraine, but also ensure that NextGenerationEU debt is being paid off from 2028 onwards, at an estimated EUR 25 and 30 billion per year, and come to terms with the absence of a rise in national contributions. Those three simultaneous constraints clearly cannot be resolved without new financial resources, which have yet to be found.
Against that backdrop, does the Commission plan to give priority to its external commitments that will have to be extended or to redirect EU funds towards Member States’ own needs?
Submitted: 13.2.2025
- [1] https://www.contexte.com/actualite/pouvoirs/budget-post-2027-la-commission-pose-les-premieres-pierres-dun-chantier-titanesque_218085.html