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Jacob Wulff Wold

@wulffwold.bsky.social
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Journalist, MSE Applied Physics Currently taking a break after covering tech, politics, EU budget negotiations in Brussels

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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Against @aftenposten.no's editorial, I argue Norway’s Epstein scandal does not show “precisely that key institutions are working”, but in fact shows 30 years of neglect. Now is not the time for Norway’s institutions to pat themselves on the back. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
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Feil tidspunkt for å hedre norske institusjoner
Det har vært jevnlig med varsler og reportasjer som burde ha fått alarmene til å gå helt siden 1996.
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I think very few outside Norway have realised how bad the country’s spiralling Epstein scandal really is. It strikes the very pillars of Norway's peace broker platform – the Oslo Accords, the Peace Prize, even the whole foreign ministry – and it's growing www.euractiv.com/news/the-sca...
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The scandal that shattered Norway’s image | Euractiv
Norway’s Epstein scandal is testing whether the country’s global influence rested solely on moral authority – or on an elite long shielded from scrutiny
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Weekly MFF update: ◇ EU leaders Thursday “competitiveness summit” will feed into the size and design of the €234 billion ECF and the budget at large www.euractiv.com/news/budget-...
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BUDGET BRIEF: Competitiveness weak | Euractiv
Leaders' competitiveness summit, MEPs' budget positions, return hubs funding
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
...And what did von der Leyen have to offer? A "roadmap on the single market" and "targeted" initiatives, to pave way for changes later. This isn't the first time leaders reach for a 'two-speed Europe' to find a way forward either www.euractiv.com/news/von-der...
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Von der Leyen floats two-speed Europe ahead of economy summit | Euractiv
EU unity gives way to the rise of multi-country coalitions
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I wouldn't get too excited about this week's competitiveness push. Europe's problems are well-known and hard to change www.euractiv.com/news/why-eu-...
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Why EU leaders won’t rescue Europe’s economy this week | Euractiv
Big reforms remain either technically complex or politically untouchable, as governments resist ceding powers to Brussels
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Starting point for EP's internal negotiations on the next EU budget (in constant 2025 euros and not counting covid loan repayments) Find the agriculture-cohesion split and more here: www.euractiv.com/news/in-numb...
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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 05/02/2026
#EUBudget: Socialist MEPs want the old #EU budget back, by @wulffwold.bsky.social | Euractiv www.euractiv.com/news/sociali...
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Socialist MEPs want the old EU budget back | Euractiv
MEPs propose restoring separate EU budget lines for key programmes
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
MEPs weapon of choice to finance the EU budget is a digital services tax, but Trump is a major political obstacle www.euractiv.com/news/meps-un...
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MEPs unite to pitch taxing American tech companies | Euractiv
But "as long as Trump is the US President, it will not come back”, according to Darvas from Bruegel
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
S&D wants separate budget lines for - health (EU4HEALTH, €8.9bn) - climate (LIFE, €6.2bn), - social policy (ESF+, €125bn), - regional development (ERDF, €227bn), - the poorest regions (CF, €31bn) - rural farmer subsidies (CAP P2, €83.8bn) www.euractiv.com/news/sociali...
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Socialist MEPs want the old EU budget back | Euractiv
MEPs propose restoring separate EU budget lines for key programmes
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Here's a write-up of the financing part www.euractiv.com/news/can-the...
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Can the EU tax its way to a €2tn budget? | Euractiv
Countries are scrutinising the €58-billion-a-year plan to tax companies, tobacco, carbon emmissions, and e-waste
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Weekly MFF update: ◇ Countries, MEPs and EU auditors are debating how to finance the budget. I dissect the real political function of new EU own resources here www.euractiv.com/news/budget-... ...
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BUDGET BRIEF: The EU's pitch for its own resources | Euractiv
'Buy European', national and regional partnership plans, and more
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 30/01/2026
UN rights chief to EU: Hands off human rights law
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UN rights chief to EU: Hands off human rights law
'It starts with migrants, but it can quickly go to other parts of the population as well'
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Weekly MFF update: ◇ Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is emerging as a key power broker for the budget, showcased in her joint declaration with Merz last week www.euractiv.com/news/budget-...
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BUDGET BRIEF: Meloni in the middle | Euractiv
Italy, competitiveness coordination tool, CAP legal articles
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The long-overdue Competitiveness Coordination tool is facing further delays, obstructing Council work on the new €234 billion European Competitiveness Fund and the €175 billion Horizon research programme www.euractiv.com/news/eu-dela...
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EU delays high-stakes industrial policy tool again, 'annoying' capitals | Euractiv
The delay is irritating capitals and slowing their work on the EU’s next budget
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"It is becoming more difficult for us," Norway's Foregin Minister Espen Barth Eide told me. Norway’s once-cherished independence leaves it vulnerable to coercion, tariffs and, in a worst-case scenario, interference with its sovereign wealth fund. www.euractiv.com/news/nobel-i...
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Nobel irony: Norway's moral authority meets the age of Trump | Euractiv
Norway’s long-cherished independence has suddenly left the proud Nordic nation vulnerable to coercion, tariffs, and even threats to its €1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Weekly MFF update 🧵 ◇ MEPs had their first full NRPP debate yesterday, showing many are still in denial regarding the merge of farmer and regional subsidies www.euractiv.com/news/budget-...
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BUDGET BRIEF: MEPs begin the budget brawl | Euractiv
MFF rapporteurs, national and regional partnership plans, own resources
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PubAffairs EU Debates, News & Opinions 🇪🇺 @pubaffairsbruxelles.eu · 20/01/2026
#EUPolitics & #EUBudget: The #MEPs shaping the #EU’s next budget, by @wulffwold.bsky.social | Euractiv www.euractiv.com/news/the-mep...
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The MEPs shaping the EU’s next budget | Euractiv
Who is pulling the strings in the European Parliament as talks on the EU’s proposed €2 trillion budget are underway? Euractiv spoke to staffers to find out
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
And if there was any doubt, Meloni is claiming victory x.com/i/status/200...
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Giorgia Meloni on X: "Accolgo con soddisfazione la decisione della Commissione Europea di modificare, come richiesto dall’Italia, la proposta di nuovo quadro finanziario pluriennale per rendere disponibili, già dal 2028, ulteriori 45 miliardi di euro per la Politica Agricola Comune. Assieme alle" / X
Accolgo con soddisfazione la decisione della Commissione Europea di modificare, come richiesto dall’Italia, la proposta di nuovo quadro finanziario pluriennale per rendere disponibili, già dal 2028, ulteriori 45 miliardi di euro per la Politica Agricola Comune. Assieme alle
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
...And there it is! VDL proposes to give countries access "to up to two thirds of the amount normally available for the midterm review" – some €45bn – to boost farmers in 2028. Mercosur unlocked? @sofiamazzanaro.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/von-der...
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Von der Leyen proposes to unlock €45 billion for farmers to secure support for Mercosur deal | Euractiv
Italy and France have been pushing the Commission to grant more concessions on the agricultural policy budget
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Weekly MFF update: ◇ The Commission is expected to suggest budget tweaks this week to appease farmers, in exchange for Italy signing the EU-Mercosur trade deal www.euractiv.com/news/budget-...
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BUDGET BRIEF: A Mercosur bargain | Euractiv
CAP, European Council, rebates, own resources
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Weekly MFF update 🧵 ◇ EU leaders will discuss the budget for the first time in the European Council this week, hoping to agree on an ambitious negotiation timeline www.euractiv.com/news/budget-...
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BUDGET BRIEF: EU leaders to take a first pass | Euractiv
European Council, MEP budget jobs, rebates
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
NEW: Italy threatens to block the only substantive MFF-point in the draft EUCO conclusions over paybacks to the richest EU countries www.euractiv.com/news/italy-t...
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Parliament’s budget committee finally resolved its fight over who should lead work on the MFF files, easing tensions between political groups. REGI and AGRI still need to find a compromise on Monday. www.euractiv.com/news/meps-en...
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MEPs end months-long fight over who leads some key EU budget files | Euractiv
Despite starting the week furious over an EPP power grab, the socialists, Renew and the Greens ended it saying the final carve-up felt fair enough
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"The current GNI corrections will be [discontinued] OR [maintained]" reads the new Council negotiating box, a change from previous versions that grants Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria a powerful bargaining chip. www.euractiv.com/news/rich-eu...
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Rich EU countries keep 'unjustified' paybacks on the table for next budget | Euractiv
The countries get over €9 billion annually in reductions of their contributions to the EU budget
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Weekly MFF update: www.euractiv.com/news/budget-... Tensions are high as MEPs fight to resolve a spat over who should be rapporteurs on the €865 billion national plans. Group leaders of EPP, S&D and Renew meet today.
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BUDGET BRIEF: EPP against the rest | Euractiv
NRPP rapporteurs, Parliament's interim report, CAP, European Competitiveness Fund
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
First MFF numbers from Parliament! Size: €1.783 trillion, or 1.27% of the EU’s GNI (constant 2025 prices, not counting NGEU repayments) NRPPs: +€89bn ECF: +€24bn Horizon: +€18bn CEF: +€8bn It also floats a digital services tax, more here: www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
No better time than today for a reminder from @elisabraun.bsky.social that Brussels' standard response to scandal is a shrug. But sometimes, the names involved "are big enough to pierce the Bubble’s thick skin," she writes. www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-...
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The Brief – The oh-so-cosy Brussels Bubble gets a brutal jolt | Euractiv
In a town built on overlapping careers and intricate social networks, the appearance of conflict of interest can be nearly as corrosive as the real thing
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 02/12/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Procurement fraud, corruption, and criminal conflict of interest. Latest major scandal hits the EU institutions as police raid EU External Action Service and College of Europe in sweeping fraud probe 🔗 dlvr.it/TPZh1K
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Weekly MFF Update! 🧵 www.euractiv.com/news/budget-...
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BUDGET BRIEF: The first negotiating box | Euractiv
Own resources, European Competitiveness Fund, EU administration, Erasmus
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The Commission should turn its simplification agenda on itself to cut costs, say EU governments. www.euractiv.com/news/capital...
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Capitals push for major restructuring of EU institutions to curb costs | Euractiv
Brussels’ administration should be subjected to the same streamlining effort being imposed across other policy areas, they argued
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Cristina Maza @cmaza.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
After a night of heavy Russian bombardment, a Ukrainian delegation is heading to the United States for talks with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, @wulffwold.bsky.social reports www.euractiv.com/news/ukraini...
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Ukrainian officials head to US for peace talks following night of heavy attacks | Euractiv
The meeting will take place as the Trump administration pushes for an end to the war
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Erasmus may become one of the few programmes that escape the Commission's recasting of everything into "competitiveness" in the next EU budget www.euractiv.com/news/an-undi...
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'An undisputed success' EU countries sceptical of Commission’s strategic Erasmus-reform | Euractiv
“Most” countries stressed that education and personal development should be the main focus, according to a council report
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
An internal council document reveals a bitter fight between richer and poorer countries over the design of the proposed €234 billion European competitiveness fund www.euractiv.com/news/poorer-...
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Poorer EU countries push Paris, Berlin for slice of €234bn industry fund | Euractiv
An internal council document reveals a bitter fight between richer and poorer countries over the industrial fund's design
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Weekly MFF update! 🧵 www.euractiv.com/news/budget-...
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
If we don't even know whether the rushed sweeping cuts to privacy will help European businesses, then what's the point? Seems like panic will just harm everyone @claudiemoreau.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/eus-dig...
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EU’s digital law cuts spark fears and doubts on competitiveness | Euractiv
"If it's about competitiveness, this is certainly not helping," said Mario Mariniello from a Brussels-based think tank
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Both Iceland and Norway have reacted strongly to the EU Commission not exempting them from new metal-trade protective measures www.euractiv.com/news/iceland... www.euractiv.com/news/norway-...
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Iceland will not sign defence statement as 'initial reaction' to EU metal-trade safeguards | Euractiv
The EU measures violate the spirit of the EEA agreement, according to Icelandic Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Parliament’s rebellion against the EU budget is now called off, after von der Leyen suggested legal changes to her own budget proposal. As institutional tensions ease, parliament divisions re-emerge. www.euractiv.com/news/disunit...
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Disunited Parliament calls off EU budget rebellion | Euractiv
"The Commission’s proposals are quite good and meet our demands," said EPP MEP Herbert Dorfmann, while sources close to the file said centre-left S&D lawmakers were unhappy with the suggestions
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Budget Commissioner Piotr Serafin vowed to consider legal changes after a high-stakes Wednesday meeting to prevent parliament rebellion against a key part of the Commission’s €2 trillion budget proposal. www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
The European Commission “is ready at the technical level” to change its €2 trillion, seven-year budget plan, and MEPs will force it to do so anyway if it outright refuses, the European Parliament’s co-lead negotiator Siegfried Muresan told me. www.euractiv.com/news/intervi...
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INTERVIEW: Commission ready to tweak its €2tn budget blueprint, says top MEP | Euractiv
"The majority will be so large that it will be impossible for the Commission to further defend its proposal," Parliament co-lead budget negotiator said
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
EU countries are divided on the reforms, and today's budget debate will expose whether the Danes really have the backing they need to charge ahead with the controversial new budget structure www.euractiv.com/news/danish-...
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Danish minister slams Parliament for budget threats, defends controversial reforms | Euractiv
EU countries are divided on the reforms, and Tuesday's budget debate will expose whether the Danes really have the backing they need to charge ahead with the controversial structure
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
While Parliament is mired in infighting over the proposed 2028-2034 EU budget, capitals are moving ahead with the Commission’s framework, according to a draft document obtained by Euractiv. www.euractiv.com/news/eu-coun...
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EU countries move ahead on long-term budget as Parliament gridlocks | Euractiv
With MEPs divided over the Commission’s 2028–2034 budget plan, EU governments are moving forward without them
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The Commission is open to “improving” regional involvement in their controversial budget centralised budget proposal, Fitto said on Thursday. www.euractiv.com/news/the-com...
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The Commission is open to changing part of its €2tn budget proposal, says region chief Fitto | Euractiv
"Now we have an important fundamental dialogue with the European Parliament," Fitto said.
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Leaders of the political groups will delay resolving two key disputes over the EU’s long-term €2 trillion budget due to internal disagreements, several European Parliament sources told Euractiv. www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...
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Parliament delays key EU budget decisions over infighting | Euractiv
Group leaders were supposed to settle the controversial national plans on Wednesday
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
A parliament move to block the €865 billion national plans would be self-defeating, say analysts. The move is causing concern among EU diplomats, who fear budget talks will be hindered and politicised at a time when swift agreement is needed. www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...
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Parliament's potential budget block will backfire, analysts say | Euractiv
Four EU diplomats told Euractiv that the Parliament's pushback over the national plans is creating uncertainty about the way forward
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Parliament is on the verge of moving to block half of the Commission's MFF proposal www.euractiv.com/news/sd-epp-...
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S&D, EPP poised to block a key part of the Commission's EU budget proposal | Euractiv
A Parliament rejection of the plans would be a severe setback for the budget negotiations and would cast the ambitious timeline to agree by the end of 2026 into doubt
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The EU’s richest countries are rebuffing demands from the bloc’s smaller economies to "geographically balance" the proposed €234 billion competitiveness fund. www.euractiv.com/news/france-...
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France, Germany on defensive over industrial fund access for smaller EU states | Euractiv
Berlin, Paris and other major funders of the EU budget have moved to block divvying up funds along geographic lines
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The proposed EU Budget lumps virtually all policy areas into only three main files, but maximum three over 20 parliament committees can lead on each of those, setting the stage for an all-or-nothing fight between the different committees. www.euractiv.com/news/meps-pr...
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MEPs prep for power struggle over EU's next €2 trillion budget | Euractiv
Twenty parliamentary committees are vying for control of the bloc's biggest and most hotly disputed budget files
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Exclusive: €122 billion of the Commisssion's revenue plan for the next budget may have been effectively shot down by EU countries last week. www.euractiv.com/news/for-edi...
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Exclusive: Commission's new corporate, tobacco levies under heavy fire from EU countries | Euractiv
No one was open to or even positive to the corporate tax, one EU diplomat said
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Parliament and regions are outraged over their lack of inclusion in the Commission’s €2 trillion budget proposal for 2028 to 2034, but according to budget chief @sriso.bsky.social, it’s all just a big misunderstanding. www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...
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Commission's budget tsar under fire for 'Trumpian' power grab | Euractiv
If you don't like it, you don't understand it, says head of DG Budget
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Jacob Wulff Wold @wulffwold.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Europe looms large in Norway's national election today – but only beneath the surface. Most Norwegians are blissfully unaware of the European dimension of their politics and their political parties are happy to keep it that way. www.euractiv.com/section/poli...
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There is no 'EU' in Norway - Euractiv
As Norwegians head to the polls today, most neither know nor particularly care about the growing importance of the EU in their country's affairs
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