{"id":13598,"date":"2026-05-11T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/13598\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:57:49","slug":"france-opposes-fast-tracking-eu-budget-deal-by-year-end-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/13598\/","title":{"rendered":"France opposes fast-tracking EU budget deal by year-end \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU countries are facing mounting pressure to finalize an agreement before French presidential elections in April 2027, which could hand power to the far-right National Rally.<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundesregierung.de\/breg-de\/aktuelles\/pk-kanzler-merz-pm-irland-2421330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Friedrich Merz<\/a> and European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa \u2014\u00a0who will broker the final stage of the talks \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-aims-france-marine-le-pen-proof-budget-deal-2026-election-far-right\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have called on EU leaders<\/a> to secure a deal in the Council by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/bills\/740629\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Commission&#8217;s proposal<\/a> envisages \u20ac1.8 trillion to spend on EU priorities including agriculture and defense from 2028 to 2034, in addition to \u20ac166 billion to repay post-Covid joint debt. The Cypriot presidency of the Council of the EU is expected to propose new spending figures in early June.<\/p>\n<p>There are lingering concerns that the National Rally\u2019s platform \u2014\u00a0which includes slashing France\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/b54d149e-3329-4fbd-97a9-7d5aebb6fbad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0contributions to the EU budget<\/a>\u00a0and downsizing military aid to Ukraine \u2014\u00a0could throw a spanner in the Council negotiations, should the party win next year&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Securing a Council agreement by the end of the year would leave plenty of time for negotiations with the European Parliament. The deadline for a plenary vote is Dec. 31, 2027, as the new budget comes into force at the start of 2028.<\/p>\n<p>In a further complication, however, other major European countries \u2014\u00a0Italy, Spain and Poland \u2014\u00a0are also planning to hold national elections in 2027. A change of government in any of these nations might disrupt negotiations, as any incoming administration is likely to advance its own set of priorities in the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EU countries are facing mounting pressure to finalize an agreement before French presidential elections in April 2027, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,10155,10156,4059,2032,6232,735,375,36,5,732,10157,67,561,738,4791,2044,2231,230,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-13598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-antonio-costa","10":"tag-benjamin-haddad","11":"tag-budget","12":"tag-cyprus","13":"tag-debt","14":"tag-defense","15":"tag-elections","16":"tag-emmanuel-macron","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-friedrich-merz","19":"tag-ignacy-niemczycki","20":"tag-italy","21":"tag-macron","22":"tag-military","23":"tag-negotiations","24":"tag-platforms","25":"tag-poland","26":"tag-spain","27":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}