{"id":1212,"date":"2018-04-10T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&#038;p=1212"},"modified":"2018-04-10T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:43:45","slug":"l-iffinanzjar-tal-futur-tal-ewropa-il-budget-tal-ue-wara-l-2020-irid-jaqbel-mal-miri-tal-policies","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/l-iffinanzjar-tal-futur-tal-ewropa-il-budget-tal-ue-wara-l-2020-irid-jaqbel-mal-miri-tal-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding Europe&#8217;s future: EU\u2019s post-2020 budget must match policy goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1200\" src=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ep_feature.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6016\" height=\"4016\" srcset=\"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ep_feature.jpg 6016w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ep_feature-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ep_feature-768x513.jpg 768w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ep_feature-1024x684.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ep_feature-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6016px) 100vw, 6016px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MEPs have set out their position on the next long-term EU budget, which should finance new priorities as well as make up for any shortfall caused by Brexit.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The European Parliament adopted two resolutions on the expenditure and revenue sides of the next multi-annual financial framework (MFF), to apply from 2021.\u202f<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The next MFF must provide the means to tackle new challenges<\/b>\u202f<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Parliament wants the EU budget to match political priorities and address some of the new challenges facing all member states, be they migration,\u00a0defence, security or climate change. They consider that the current limit on EU expenditure needs to be raised from 1% to 1.3% of EU GNI,\u00a0in order to\u00a0be able to fund these new priority areas without sacrificing Europe\u2019s poorest regions or farming communities.\u202f<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Key proposals include boosting research\u00a0programmes, Erasmus+, the Youth Employment Initiative and support for SMEs as well as infrastructure investment through the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/inea\/en\/connecting-europe-facility\">Connecting Europe Facility<\/a>\u202f(CEF).\u202f<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559738&quot;:120,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MEPs have set out their position on the next long-term EU budget, which should finance new priorities as well as make up for any shortfall caused by Brexit.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1200,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[53],"issuem_issue_categories":[8],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1212\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}