{"id":54086,"date":"2025-07-10T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54086\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T12:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:24:16","slug":"socialists-to-support-von-der-leyen-in-no-confidence-vote-after-she-backs-down-on-eu-budget-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/54086\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialists to support von der Leyen in no-confidence vote after she backs down on EU budget \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cS&amp;D has achieved the inclusion of ESF+ [European Social Fund] in next MFF [the EU\u2019s long-term budget, known as the multiannual financial framework] \u2015 a major win for people across Europe,\u201d said a group spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday the ESF+ was out of the MFF. Today it is in it, thanks to the firmness of the S&amp;D family,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>The motion of no confidence is expected to fail to meet the two-thirds majority threshold, given the centrist groups, comprising von der Leyen\u2019s center-right European People\u2019s Party, the Socialists, and the liberals of Renew Europe, have now all confirmed they will vote against.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVon der Leyen has made a major concession on a topic that is dear to the S&amp;D,\u201d said MEP Ren\u00e9 Repasi, leader of the German SPD in the Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that she finally understood what is happening in the Parliament after Monday\u2018s debate and she saw the need to act,\u201d he added. \u201cWe recognize this effort and we take it into consideration when taking our final decision how to vote tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the presentation of the next EU seven year long budget slated for next week, the Socialists, the second-largest group in the European Parliament, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/socialists-rebel-against-commissions-plan-eu-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">linked their support to the preservation of the European Social Fund<\/a>, which is supposed to tackle poverty and support vulnerable groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cS&amp;D has achieved the inclusion of ESF+ [European Social Fund] in next MFF [the EU\u2019s long-term budget, known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3232,40108,40109,2850,50,21978,40110,40111,2856,16815,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-54086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-eu-funding","10":"tag-european-social-fund","11":"tag-hungary","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-regions-cohesion","14":"tag-roxana-minzatu","15":"tag-siegfried-muresan","16":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","17":"tag-viktor-orban","18":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114828926375764184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}