“The EPP is not too concerned about adopting texts”, a parliamentary source told Agence Europe. This sentence, uttered ahead of the vote on the guidelines for the 2026 budget - a non-binding political text - on Wednesday 2 April, says a lot about the state of the political balance and the pro-European majority in the European Parliament.
Passed without a hitch by the Committee on Budgets on 20 March, the guidelines for the 2026 budget may not be supported by a majority in the...