Eszter Zalan
🇭🇺 Press officer at the European Parliament. 🇪🇺 On budget and MFF. Only my views. And sometimes yours. Previously journo @euobs,@afp, Nepszabadsag.
- ICYMI: The European Parliamentary Research Service published an analysis of the Commission’s proposal for the 2028–2034 EU budget, comparing it with the current Multiannual Financial Framework (#MFF). 📖 Read it here: www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...
- 📌Ahead of Commission's #MFF proposal, here’s a reminder of Parliament's position (adopted in May): • Current 1% EU-27 GNI ceiling is insufficient • No to national plans • Mega-funds not fit for purpose • Strong parliamentary accountability essential 🔗Details: europa.eu/!jk4mm3
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- 🚨On 25 June at 15:15 CET, Parliament's #MFF co-rapporteurs MEPs Carla Tavares and Siegfried Mureșan will take part in a roundtable on "The next EU long-term budget: Spending challenges and revenue options", organised by the EP Think Tank. Registration by 23 June. Details ▶️ europa.eu/!mctx66
- Reposted by Eszter ZalanWhat is the life of an 11-year-old boy worth? It’s a question we have been grappling with in Brussels since the horrific events of Monday evening, when a small boy was killed under the wheels of a police car in Parc Elisabeth. BN #105: An Elisabethan Tragedy open.substack.com/pub/brussels...
- For own resources nerds! 👓 You'll find the presentations of the experts who presented their views today on OR to the Parliament's Budgets Committee here ▶️ europa.eu/!x4KkGv Missed it? Rewatch the workshop here ⤵️ europa.eu/!CXvm9k
- This week on the European Parliament's Budgets Committee: - @piotrserafin.bsky.social will present Commission's draft budget for 2026. - MEPs will vote on opinion on the Draghi Report and the Capital Markets Union. More in the draft agenda👇 europa.eu/!Dw7Cnh Follow live👇 europa.eu/!xW3PXQ
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- Today the Budgets Committee backed MEPs Mureșan and Tavares's report calling for a significantly more ambitious long-term EU budget (MFF) that can deliver on EU citizens’ rising expectations against a rapidly changing global backdrop. 23➕/ 9➖/ 2⭕️ Details ⤵️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
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- Reposted by Eszter ZalanAs someone who grew up on an island in the Mediterranean, I’m no stranger to blue skies. But this Blue Sky is different 😃. Here, I’m new. So as I do my first post, I look forward to connect, interact & continue to advance democracy. This is what we do at the European Parliament. Watch this space.