Commission fails to impress with EU post-2020 budget proposals
The European Commission proposes to allocate 552 million euros at current prices in the EU's 2021-2027 budget for the decommissioning of Lithuania's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP).
It is the member States of the EU and the European Parliament will determine the final form of the community budget, writes in a commentary in the newspaper Rzeczpospolita, the political scientist prof Marek Tsihotsky.
In the proposals, which need to be approved by member states, European Union countries will have to cap subsidies for large farms - with the Commission suggesting a limit of 60,000 euros - or impose degressive payments depending on farm size, with the rest redistributed by member states to small and medium-sized ones.
Polish officials delivered a somewhat measured reaction to the budget announcement, expressing relief that the proposed long-term plan's cuts and shifts in spending are much less painful than expected. "Cuts for Poland will be higher than the European Union average", said the Civic Platform's Janusz Lewandowski, himself a former European Union budget commissioner.
The EU unveiled plans Wednesday for a bigger 1.279-trillion euro budget for the seven years after Brexit featuring a controversial move to cut funding for countries that fail to respect democratic standards. In a press release, the LERU says, "the proposed increased investment in research, innovation and education by the Commission is acceptable". Some Western European leaders are already concerned that the planned spending in the budget doesn't shrink despite the departure of the United Kingdom, a net contributor of funds. "I strongly believe we should aim to have agreement before the European Parliament elections next year". For instance, the budget of Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps will be doubled.
European Union bureaucrats have come up with an ingenious mechanism for getting maverick governments, mostly in Eastern Europe, into line.
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The EU executive also proposed a new set of so-called "own resources" to the budget, so it could raise its own money (up to 12 percent of the total EU budget).
EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger, who called for states to show unprecedented speed and agree on the budget within a year, said it was inevitable that there will be disputes: "There will be cuts, which many countries will complain about, and there will be new spending, which the others will complain about", he remarked.
BATTLES AHEAD: The proposal asks member states to let Brussels raise new money directly from new taxes on plastics - designed also to help the environment - and on big global tech firms. He also rejected the gradual phasing out of the rebates.
Austria's prime minister, Sebastian Kurz, whose country is one of the net contributors reluctant to pay more, tweeted that the commission's proposal is "still far from an acceptable solution".
She said, "It is scandalous that the Commission is increasing spending to bolster "Fortress Europe" and harden external borders at a time when traditional programmes are being cut".
But he warned that the negotiations "might be one of the most hard ones in history".
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