Von der Leyen affords concessions to the European Parliament to win its assist locally budgets | Economy | EUROtoday

The European Commission needs to persuade the European Parliament to not reject the multiannual price range mission for the interval 2028-2034, as the principle parliamentary teams have threatened to do. And to attain this, it has proven its willingness to make concessions within the facets on which the criticism of the parliamentary teams focuses: the little prominence given to the areas, the modifications within the frequent agricultural coverage (CAP) or the function given to Parliament in these accounts. “Regional control can be introduced to further guarantee the full participation of regional authorities in the preparation, implementation and evaluation of the plans, as well as ensure the right of regional authorities to exchange information directly with the Commission,” says a letter to which EL PAÍS has had entry, despatched this Sunday by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to the president of the Eurochamber, Roberta Metsola, and to the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Fredriksen, who this semester presides in flip. the Council of the EU.

Since the Commission offered the multiannual price range mission for the interval 2028-2034, all parliamentary teams obtained the proposal with hostility. The misgivings centered on the profound modifications that have been proposed in conventional EU insurance policies, such because the CAP or the cohesion funds, along with the creation of nationwide plans that may embody virtually all transfers to the Member States, conditional on a collection of reforms agreed between Brussels and the capitals, following the instance of the Recovery Fund. This rejection led the 4 parliamentary forces on which the Commission’s proposals are normally primarily based – with many difficulties and frictions – (the European People’s Party, of which she herself is part, the Social Democrats, the Liberals and the Greens) to ship Von der Leyen a letter exhibiting their rejection of all the price range structure, beginning with that denounced “renationalization.”

But the parliamentary teams should not keen to cease at simply the rejection letter; additionally they contemplate selling a political rejection vote in Parliament, one thing that may happen this week. The European Parliament and the Council of the EU are the 2 our bodies that negotiate the ultimate configuration of the multiannual budgets in what’s normally probably the most complicated legislative course of within the Union. And an instance of that is what has already been seen in these 4 months which have handed for the reason that Commission offered the price range, the Member States, that’s, the Council of the EU, have been making progress in marking their place, taking the mission as a legitimate foundation though it’s not shared by many capitals.

Parliament, for its half, has proven its rejection of the price range construction itself, with out discussing the distribution of spending by chapters or sources of earnings. And that’s the reason Von der Leyen has tried to seduce them with this letter, superior by the newspaper Financial Times and to which EL PAÍS has had entry. In addition, a gathering is scheduled this Monday between Von der Leyen, the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and the Danish Prime Minister Fredriksen.

At that assembly, the small print of the letter and the connected doc during which the authorized improvement of the proposed modifications are specified can be clarified. It can also be very clear that the Commission doesn’t surrender this program mannequin designed between Brussels and the capitals: “We strongly reaffirm that each Member State will be organized in accordance with its institutional and territorial structure with regard to the function of coordinating the plans,” it clarifies instantly after having supplied this “regional control” and direct dialogue between the areas and the Commission.

Along with this, additionally in keeping with the function of native and regional authorities, it factors out that “in addition to the minimum allocation already provided for less developed regions, specific safeguards can also be considered to guarantee the continuity of investment in transition and more developed regions.” To calm the alarms raised by the renationalization of the CAP and the danger that this finally ends up diluting frequent political goals, the Commission has devised mechanisms to make sure that this doesn’t occur.

Diplomatic sources from the Council of the EU indicated this Monday that they didn’t see main issues within the doc despatched by Parliament. They confused that it sought to calm the issues of the European Parliament, though additionally they identified that some Member States had expressed related fears in Council conferences. This signifies, in precept, that the opposite legislative physique of the Union has valued this transfer by the Commission. There was a danger that this may not be the case, as different diplomatic sources identified final week, warning that, if the Commission accepted very profound modifications within the accounts, it will be the States that might grow to be irritated.