“We have been opposing these national envelopes for six months and the European Commission is presenting them anyway”, said Fabienne Keller (Renew Europe, French), referring to the Commission’s working document on the post-2027 MFF which was leaked on Wednesday 12 March (see EUROPE B13598A5).
The French MEP, shadow rapporteur on the European Parliament’s own-initiative report on the MFF, sees this nationalisation of the EU budget as a way of “managing the famine". It would be...