On Tuesday 7 January, the Jacques Delors Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) presented the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control with a joint report on the ability of the EU budget to cope with future crises.
Based on the EU’s responses to the Covid-19 crisis, the report proposes a number of solutions for the next post-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) (see EUROPE B13543A16). Above all, the two think tanks point out a paradox introduced...