The European Commission asked the EU Member States, on Tuesday 20 June, for a budget extension of €65.8 billion until 2027, as part of the revision of the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), for which all the available flexibilities have been used in the context of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine and its consequences, such as inflation and the energy crisis.
“We are in a completely different world compared to 2020, when the MFF we are discussing today was...