{"id":562820,"date":"2025-11-11T04:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/562820\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T04:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:30:21","slug":"ursula-von-der-leyens-dangerous-budget-balancing-act-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/562820\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s dangerous budget balancing act \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The size of right-wing and far-right groups swelled in the last election, destabilizing the centrist majority that usually backs her \u2014 her own political family, center-right European People\u2019s Party, plus the Socialists and Democrats and the liberals of Renew. The EPP has repeatedly threatened to team up with the far right, planting distrust and blowing up negotiations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the most unstable Parliament ever. It is very difficult for the Commission to predict their moves and what to expect from votes, it\u2019s generating a lot of frustrations in the Berlaymont,\u201d an EU official said when the centrists failed to back a deal on green rules for businesses, key to von der Leyen’s agenda. The official was granted anonymity to speak freely, as were others in this piece.<\/p>\n

Setting a precedent<\/strong><\/p>\n

By appeasing the Parliament on the budget by suggesting changes that are acceptable for EU countries<\/a>, von der Leyen has avoided a boxing match between the EU\u2019s co-legislators \u2014\u00a0for now.<\/p>\n

\"\"Spokesperson for the Commission Balazs Ujvari said Monday the EU executive has “listened to these discussions and the positions formulated by various actors.” | Thierry Monasse\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

On one side of the ring is the EU Council, representing the countries. It wants to protect its status as EU top dog, and believes that the Parliament should simply rubber-stamp the budget once it has been agreed upon by national capitals (as is envisaged in the EU’s official rules).<\/p>\n

On the other side? The most polarized Parliament in history, keen on securing power and pushing for its position to be greater.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can do whatever we want, we can use our consent power \u2026 we would be dumb not to use it,\u201d said a senior Parliament official after the Commission\u2019s concessions, echoing the views of many of his colleagues. \u201cThe Council should not play too much on the institutional role … we have the power so we will use it until the very end to try to get more concessions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The size of right-wing and far-right groups swelled in the last election, destabilizing the centrist majority that usually…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[3971,2000,12921,299,5187,809,5111,72198,2822,84490,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-562820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-eu-budget","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-negotiations","14":"tag-parliament","15":"tag-rasmus-andresen","16":"tag-regions-cohesion","17":"tag-siegfried-muresan","18":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115529189617582060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562820","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=562820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}