The debate on the new Multi-year Financial Framework and the 2021-2027 community budget planning continues after updates some time ago (1, 2 e 3), here we go again with some additional news: knowing that the European Parliament elections are now very close and that the next steps will depend on the work of the new Parliament and the new European Commission.
Starting from where we left off: On November 14, the European Parliament approved its Interim report on the multi-year financial framework 2021-2027, which officially defines its position on the proposal received from the Commission (which has the power of legislative initiative) and with a view to an agreement with the Council (the second EU institution, together with the Parliament, involved in the legislative approval process).
In this report, Parliament proposes, among other things, to increase the EU’s multi-year budget to 1.3 percent of its gross national income, compared to the Commission’s more modest proposal of 1.08 percent, with the stated aim of being able to respond more effectively to the important challenges and priorities of citizens and the EU in the next seven years.
Instead, the EU Council presented on Nov. 30 a Draft Negotiating Outline, which captures the key points of debate on which EU leaders will have to pronounce themselves and which the Council will have to address in the coming months. A Progress Report (Nov. 30) and a Work Program (Feb. 14) summarize the time steps.
The shared goal is to provide the June 2019 European Council with an optimized draft negotiating outline to facilitate reaching agreement on the new seven-year financial framework in fall 2019 and its final adoption by the end of 2019. This would allow a timely start of the new community programs on January 1, 2021.
In addition, it is important to mention that the Parliament has recently adopted its positions on most of the thematic programs: those proposed by the European Commission in June 2018 and explained in a previous post of ours.
These new documents provide a deeper and more accurate, though still provisional, view of the future of community funding.
We update the previous pdf on this new page, supplementing our summary of the state of the art on 2021-2027 fund programming with recent parliamentary resolutions.
