{"id":278925,"date":"2025-07-21T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278925\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:08:09","slug":"warsaw-gloats-berlin-balks-as-eu-budget-fight-turns-national-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278925\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsaw gloats, Berlin balks as EU budget fight turns national \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the raw totals, the Commission\u2019s plans also indicate whom Brussels trusts to handle sensitive tasks. Germany, Greece and Spain top the allocations for migration, security and border management, with \u20ac4.1 billion, \u20ac3.5 billion and \u20ac3 billion respectively. Poland, with \u20ac1.9 billion, is the top recipient in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Concerns are mounting, meanwhile, over the plan to integrate agricultural funds into broader national programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The proposed budget sees agriculture spending shrink nominally by over 20 percent, from \u20ac386.6 billion in the current budget to \u20ac300 billion in the next, prompting farmers\u2019 groups across Europe to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/brussels-slashes-eu-farm-budget-cap-declaration-war-ursula-von-der-leyen-agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denounce the new structure as a \u201cbetrayal.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although Serafin insisted direct payments to farmers would remain stable, many fear inflation will effectively gut the value of this support.<\/p>\n<p>The budget proposal \u201cis a good starting point for an exchange of views,\u201d Poland\u2019s Sz\u0142apka said Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/201193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">softening previous criticism<\/a> toward the Commission\u2019s plans to reform the budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCohesion and agriculture need to remain strong and need to be adequately funded,\u201d he added during a meeting of Europe ministers in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Graphics by Lucia Mackenzie. This story has been updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyond the raw totals, the Commission\u2019s plans also indicate whom Brussels trusts to handle sensitive tasks. Germany, Greece&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[3971,768,1194,5898,2000,12921,299,5187,6644,36,1945,1824,1450,6657,3209,52252,770,2822,811,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-278925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-budget","11":"tag-donald-tusk","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-budget","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-farmers","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-friedrich-merz","19":"tag-germany","20":"tag-greece","21":"tag-migration","22":"tag-payments","23":"tag-piotr-serafin","24":"tag-poland","25":"tag-regions-cohesion","26":"tag-security","27":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278925","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=278925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}