As the EU gears up for negotiations over its next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the stakes are higher than ever.
With mounting geopolitical threats, growing demands for investment in defence, climate and technology, and rising nationalist resistance within the Council, the question is no longer just how much Europe is willing to spend – but whether it can afford not to.
In this interview, former First Vice President of the European Parliament and the new President of the European Forum Alpbach, Othmar Karas, outlines why the next MFF must become a tool for unity and transformation – not another missed opportunity.
Europe Enlargement Fellow
Deputy Editor in Chief at Res Publica Nowa. Doctoral Candidate at the University of Oxford and Research Assistant to Timothy Garton Ash, co-founder of the Club Alpbach Poland, Committee Representative for the Security Track at the European Forum Alpbach, and visiting fellow at IWM – Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. Researcher in the project ‘Europe in a Changing World’, at the European Studies Center at the University of Oxford.
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