{"id":212047,"date":"2025-06-25T03:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/212047\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T03:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:01:15","slug":"socialists-rebel-against-commissions-plan-to-slash-social-spending-in-eu-budget-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/212047\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialists rebel against Commission\u2019s plan to slash social spending in EU budget \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI do not understand an MFF, a community budget, without such an important fund as the European Social Fund,\u201d said Iratxe Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez, leader of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament during the last plenary session.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The Commission] won&#8217;t have a blank check from the Socialist group,\u201d she warned, hinting the fund will be a red-line in negotiations. She added to POLITICO: \u201cWe need to adapt to new challenges, and competitiveness is part of it, but not at the cost of leaving behind the EU\u2019s social cohesion. Farmers, industry and business also benefit from social spending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Socialists, the second-largest group in the European Parliament, accuse the center-right-dominated EU executive of railroading its pro-business and deregulation agenda into the next seven-year budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/von-der-leyen-faces-political-crisis-after-groups-threaten-withdraw-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Socialists and liberals threatened to pull the plug<\/a> on von der Leyen\u2019s informal pro-EU majority after she controversially sided with the far right in canceling an anti-greenwashing law.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the Berlaymont, the Socialist commissioner for social rights Roxana M\u00eenzatu \u2015 who is in charge of the European Social Fund \u2014 is fighting a rearguard battle to save it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/13133095-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6809169\"  \/>\u201cI do not understand an MFF, a community budget, without such an important fund as the European Social Fund,\u201d said Iratxe Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez. | Ronald Wittek\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>M\u00eenzatu and her three fellow Socialist commissioners, however, are outnumbered by 14 commissioners from the EPP who are keen to steer the EU\u2019s \u20ac1.2 trillion cashpot towards new priorities such as defense and industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI do not understand an MFF, a community budget, without such an important fund as the European Social&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6641,473,2266,2000,12922,299,5187,84487,84488,8175,39253,2822,84489,84490,22793,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-212047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-competitiveness","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-eu-budget-mff","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-social-fund","16":"tag-iratxe-garcia-perez","17":"tag-labor","18":"tag-labor-rights","19":"tag-regions-cohesion","20":"tag-roxana-minzatu","21":"tag-siegfried-muresan","22":"tag-skills","23":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212047","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=212047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}