- Risk of no agreement in time on the post-2020 long-term EU budget
- MEPs request that Commission tables a contingency plan to guarantee continuity of EU funding
- Plan must take into account immediate social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak
The current health crisis compels us to tackle the risk of the next
long-term EU budget not coming into force on 1 January 2021 with even
more urgency, MEPs say.
On Monday, Members of the Committee on Budgets
adopted a legislative initiative report by 37 votes in favour, 1
against and 3 abstentions, requesting that the European Commission
submits a proposal for an MFF (Multiannual Financial Framework)
contingency plan by 15 June 2020.
While current budgetary ceilings would
be automatically extended if no new MFF is in place next year,
nonetheless many programmes will expire at the end of 2020. The aim is
to provide a safety net for beneficiaries of EU programmes such as
citizens, regions, cities, farmers, universities or businesses, and rule
out any risk of the current MFF and programmes being discontinued or
extended in a disorderly way.(...)
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