Germany threw its weight behind the European Fee’s plans for the subsequent seven-year price range on Tuesday, vowing to dam any deal that fails to incorporate a performance-based funding precept.
The subsequent EU price range, often called the multiannual monetary framework (MFF), features a proposal to merge agriculture and regional subsidies into centralised nationwide plans negotiated between the Fee and EU capitals.
The plan has already drawn fierce opposition from MEPs, farmers, and regional governments, who see it as a “renationalisation” of EU funds. However Berlin, the bloc’s largest monetary contributor, is standing agency.
“Germany is not going to conform to an MFF which doesn’t contain modernisation,” mentioned German ambassador to the EU Thomas Ossowski throughout a ministerial debate on Tuesday. “We want these new buildings, and we assist the reform proposed by the Fee.”
Ossowski additionally dismissed calls from poorer EU international locations to carve up the proposed €234 billion European Competitiveness Fund alongside geographic traces to ensure entry no matter undertaking power. The EU’s richest international locations, together with Germany and France, have as an alternative pushed for a merit-based strategy.
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If the merit-based ‘excellence precept’ of the Competitiveness Fund, which might favour richer EU international locations, is named into query, then the subsidies devoted to poorer international locations can even be referred to as into query, Ossowski mentioned. “It’s so simple as that.” The Fee has already considerably slashed these subsidies.
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