The EU Commission has proposed a new budget for the period from 2028 to 2034 which totals some two trillion euros – around 700 billion euros more than is planned in the current budget. At the same time, less money is to be allocated to fixed areas, in a bid to increase flexibility and allow for quicker responses in a crisis. The European press reacts with shock.
This budget proposal is simply excessive. “The greed of the Brussels bureaucrats knows no bounds. The EU Commission under President von der Leyen seems to be preoccupied only with accumulating more power. … Von der Leyen calls this ‘the most ambitious budget ever’. What she really means, of course, is the most megalomaniac budget imaginable. The Commission is once again showing no understanding for the economic situation in the EU member states. And it is deaf to the criticism of the citizens.