Landtag protests: EU Commission plans drastic grant cuts!

Landtag protests: EU Commission plans drastic grant cuts!

The state parliament in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is on the barricade against the latest financial planning of the EU Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen. All political groups in this body are in rejection of the announced centralization of the allocation of funding. They demand from the state government to use vehemently to maintain a regionalized and subject -related medium -assignment. The excitement seems great here because the planned changes could have massive effects on funding policy.

Julian Barlen, the SPD parliamentary group leader, emphasizes how important it is that farmers and municipalities will continue to have a say in the future to ensure planning security. In the course of this discussion, he also points out that around 20 billion euros from Brussels have flowed to Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 1990, which have made a decisive contribution to modernizing infrastructure and the Internet expansion.

Dangers through donation losses

The federal government is skeptical about the proposal of a comprehensive increase in the EU budget, since the member countries have to stabilize their households. This position is strongly influenced by EU policy in agriculture, which has been of fundamental importance since the introduction of the common agricultural policy (GAP) in 1962. The proportion of GAP in the EU budget dropped from over 70 percent in the 1980s to around 25 percent. A total of 378,532 million euros are planned for the GAP for the years 2023 to 2027, which again underlines how critical the financial support for the region is.

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