{"id":156395,"date":"2025-06-04T02:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156395\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T02:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T02:56:09","slug":"denmark-to-drop-frugal-stance-on-eu-budget-says-pm-frederiksen-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156395\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark to drop \u2018frugal\u2019 stance on EU budget, says PM Frederiksen \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frederiksen argued the EU needs the funds to bolster its defenses amid Russia\u2019s assault on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the most important thing is to rearm Europe,\u201d Frederiksen said. \u201cThat&#8217;s my starting point and that&#8217;s my conclusion in all discussions, because if Europe is not able to protect ourselves and to defend ourselves, then it&#8217;s game over at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Europe, she added, is \u201crunning out of time because of Russia\u2019s behavior\u201d and needs \u201ca new profile on the budget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13100284-1024x697.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6702777\" style=\"width:729px;height:auto\"  \/>Frederiksen argued the EU needs the funds to bolster its defenses amid Russia\u2019s assault on Ukraine. | Sergey Kozlov\/EFE via EPA<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations for the next budget \u2014\u00a0the EU&#8217;s Multiannual Financial Framework \u2014\u00a0for the years stretching from 2028 to 2034 are set to start after the summer. Denmark\u2019s stance is key, as the country will hold the Council presidency starting in July.<\/p>\n<p>Frederiksen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/vladimir-putin-russia-eu-budget-defense-spending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signaled a fiscal U-turn in December<\/a>, saying Denmark was looking at European common debt \u2014 traditionally a taboo topic for the Nordic country \u2014 with &#8220;new eyes.&#8221; In her New Year\u2019s speech she doubled down, calling for more investment and arguing that state aid may be necessary to revive European economies.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Danish officials also attended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-eu-defense-fund-arms-investment-procurement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a secret gathering of senior finance ministry officials<\/a> from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Poland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to float the idea of creating a supranational bank specifically for the purpose of jointly buying weapons and slashing the cost of defense procurement, according to officials familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frederiksen argued the EU needs the funds to bolster its defenses amid Russia\u2019s assault on Ukraine. \u201cFor me,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7907,1194,9216,2825,473,365,2000,66404,299,5187,1699,1197,2452,48802,809,5111,48,31621,332,52824,812,3053,15,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-156395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-austria","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-council-presidency","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-denmark","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-eu-council-presidency","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-european-union","19":"tag-investment","20":"tag-media","21":"tag-mette-frederiksen","22":"tag-negotiations","23":"tag-parliament","24":"tag-rights","25":"tag-roberta-metsola","26":"tag-russia","27":"tag-state-aid","28":"tag-sweden","29":"tag-the-netherlands","30":"tag-united-kingdom","31":"tag-war-in-ukraine","32":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114622849918851663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}