{"id":13245,"date":"2026-04-28T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/13245\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:45:21","slug":"eu-debates-new-long-term-mff-budget-amid-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/13245\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Debates New Long-Term MFF Budget Amid Divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Welcome to the Brussels Edition. I\u2019m Suzanne Lynch, Bloomberg\u2019s Brussels bureau chief, bringing you the latest from the EU each weekday. Make sure you\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/account\/newsletters\/brussels-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">signed up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the ongoing war in the Middle East overshadowed last week\u2019s summit in Cyprus, European Union leaders also held their first substantive discussion on another contentious issue \u2013 the bloc\u2019s next seven-year budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The \u20ac1.8 trillion package proposed by the European Commission last year is an eye-watering sum, which threatens to open up age-old debates about the bloc\u2019s spending priorities and who pays. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Brussels Edition. I\u2019m Suzanne Lynch, Bloomberg\u2019s Brussels bureau chief, bringing you the latest from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[8143,18,9098,269,934,168,69,299,172,493,487,396],"class_list":["post-13245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-bonds","tag-brussels","tag-budget-deficit","tag-business","tag-cyprus","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-europe","tag-european-parliament","tag-germany","tag-government","tag-middle-east","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116481695612851862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}