– President of the Commission of the Leyen wants to spend every fourth Euro in the EU Budget for climate protection. There is resistance from the member States.
Calls for a “Green Deal” for Europe: Commission President von der Leyen photo: Virginia Mayo/ap
Strasbourg, afp | EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has a reasonable EU multi-annual budget for its climate protection plan “Green Deal” required. “I’m not going to accept an outcome that provides for at least 25 percent against climate change,” said von der Leyen on Wednesday in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg. They called on the EU countries in addition to the Position of the EU-members “full account”.
The negotiations on the community budget for the years 2021 to 2027, to help you to continue to be difficult. The member States could not agree yet on a common Position. The largest net contributors to the EU budget, including Germany, want to keep the annual contributions of a percentage of national economic output. Especially from the South and the East will Call to come to a larger Budget.
The European Commission had originally demanded a Budget of at least 1.11 percent of the EU gross domestic product. However, that was before the arrival of the Leyens and the presentation of your ambitious Green deal.
in addition to the means necessary for this, the CDU politician pointed in particular on the budgetary hole by the exit of the net payer of the United Kingdom, they amounted to 75 billion euros for the next seven-year budget period.
EU members, the need to agree an agreement by the member States at the end, even calling a Budget in the amount of 1.3 percent of economic output. The Parliament’s negotiators threatened on Tuesday with a blockage of the outcome of the negotiations, the member States, should it not meet your requirements.
you want to, in particular, adequate funding of research and education programs for new tasks of the joint border protection Agency Frontex, as well as more money for climate protection. The discussion among the member States is currently limited largely to the traditional tasks of the EU, the Regional and agricultural aid.
EU Council President, Charles Michel, has for the 20. February convened a special summit of heads of state and heads of government. An agreement at the summit was according to the diplomat recently, however, unlikely. In the debate in the European Parliament, von der Leyen Michel took part. Several members, including the Chairman of the Conservative party, Manfred Weber, and the socialists, Iratxe García, criticized his absence.
