The position of MEPs in the Committee on Budgets for the EU budget for 2026, adopted on Monday 6 October, adds €523 million to the draft 2026 budget proposed by the Commission (see EUROPE B13653A27) and restores €1.3 billion for the funding of key programmes, an amount that had been cut by the Council of the EU (see EUROPE B13678A30).
MEPs refuse to accept that the unexpected overrun of €4.3 billion in borrowing costs linked to Next Generation EU (the post-Covid-19 recovery...