Negotiations on the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) are always lengthy, complex and conflictual. This applies to the MFF 2021-2027, which is expected to have a financial volume of around €1.3 trillion. As usual, the negotiations revolve around political priorities, the expenditures...

For the first time, security and defence will be a separate heading in the next MFF even though Article 41.2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) prohibits the use of the EU budget for defence reasons.

Verhandlungen über den mehrjährigen Finanzrahmen (MFR) der EU sind stets langwierig, komplex und konfliktreich. Nicht anders ist dies beim MFR 2021-2027, der ein Finanzvolumen von rund 1,3 Billionen Euro umfassen soll. Die Verhandlungen drehen sich wie üblich um politische Prioritäten, die...