Agreement in dispute over EU budget for 2022

After “long and tough negotiations”, the EU Parliament and the member states have agreed on a budget.

Almost 170 billion euros can be planned for the coming year.

Brussels - Negotiators from the European Parliament and the governments of the EU countries have agreed on the EU budget for the coming year.

According to both sides, the agreement reached during the night stipulates that around 169.5 billion euros can be planned for in 2022.

This corresponds to an increase of around five billion euros compared to the original budget planning for the current year.

Money for the consequences of a pandemic and climate protection

The money from the EU community budget is intended, among other things, to help contain the economic consequences of the corona pandemic and to promote environmental and climate protection.

A large part of the amount will also continue to be used to support farmers and comparatively poor regions in the EU countries.

"After long and tough negotiations with the European Parliament, we succeeded in reaching a sensible compromise," commented a diplomat shortly after the agreement.

This budget strengthens Europe and Europe's ability to act.

New employees required

A point of contention in the negotiations was the EU Parliament's request for more than 300 new employees.

Member States considered this claim to be insufficiently justified, but the European Parliament ultimately prevailed.

Basically, it was also about the question of how much money should be planned for 2022.

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The EU Parliament started negotiations with the demand that an amount of 171.8 billion euros be made available in the coming year.

The member states started with a bid of 167.7 billion euros.

They were just below the 167.8 billion euros that Budget Commissioner Hahn had proposed in his first draft for the 2022 budget.

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