EU long-term budget battles

28 Sep 2011

Gina Hanrahan

Negotiations on the EU's next long-term budget (2014-2020) have begun in earnest. These negotiations have traditionally proved complex and protracted, given the range of competing preferences held by Member States across a spectrum of issues. In the midst of the Eurozone crisis and with a broadened base of actors on this occasion – including a European Parliament with enhanced status in the negotiations and an expanded EU of 27 – the post-2013 negotiations could well prove to be the most complex yet.

This briefing introduces the debate on the next Multiannual Financial Framework.

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