Sweden does not wish to offset the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU by limiting the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) to 1% GNI and has therefore proposed significant budgetary cuts to the CAP and cohesion policy, specifying this in a government document.
Sweden is known to oppose any increase in the European budget (see EUROPE 11967, 11968). The document, which was published in February and consulted by EUROPE on Tuesday 6 March, is no departure from this position.