{"id":26848,"date":"2026-04-14T18:14:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/26848\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:14:52","slug":"commission-makes-changes-to-its-own-budget-proposal-to-avoid-parliament-rebellion-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/26848\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission makes changes to its own budget proposal to avoid Parliament rebellion \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But several other lawmakers were less positive. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a step in the right direction but not a breakthrough,\u201d said another MEP working on the file.<\/p>\n<p>Another point of contention is the Commission&#8217;s proposal to merge the regional and agricultural budget into a single cash pot handled by national governments \u2015\u00a0who would get significant leeway over how to spend the money.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2243337340-1024x785.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7470246\"  \/>The Commission\u2019s move comes hours before a crucial virtual meeting between Ursula von der Leyen, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. | Johnathan Nackstrand\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>This has sparked outrage among mayors and regional leaders, who fear they will have no say regarding the funds.<\/p>\n<p>In order to fix this issue, the EU executive has now suggested giving regional leaders more power to determine how the money is being spent \u2015\u00a0including by giving them a seat at the table in key planning meetings between national governments and Commission officials.<\/p>\n<p>In a further concession, the Commission proposed guarantees to reduce the risk of national governments cutting payments to more developed regions. This comes on top of a \u20ac218 billion guarantee for payments to poorer areas in July.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Commission suggested giving Parliament a bigger role in deciding how the EU\u2019s public funding is being spent.<\/p>\n<p>Bartosz Brzezi\u0144ski and Nick Vinocur contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But several other lawmakers were less positive. \u201cIt is a step in the right direction but not a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[139],"tags":[333,1062,9656,5818,5964,1430,373,388,2044,3817,4505,441,403],"class_list":["post-26848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-roberta-metsola","tag-agriculture","tag-budget","tag-eu-budget","tag-farmers","tag-mayors","tag-meps","tag-mette-frederiksen","tag-parliament","tag-payments","tag-public-funding","tag-regions-cohesion","tag-roberta-metsola","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116404428672668803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}