MEP in charge of EU long-term budget says Council will not be ready to negotiate before January

News Tank Academic - Brussels - News #456164 - Published on 06/10/26 at 17:46
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Leading MEP on the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2028-2034 says the Council of the EU will not be ready to negotiate before January.

Siegfried Mureșan, a Romanian centre-right MEP who drafted the European Parliament’s report on the EU’s 2028-2034 budget, said on 06/10/2026: "Even if the Council, in the optimistic scenario, has an agreement on the MFF in December, they need to translate that into positions on the sectorial files, so they will not be ready to negotiate before January in any case."

He also acknowledged the delays in certain sectoral file negotiations in the Parliament, but pointed out that MEPs were working "in good faith" to conclude their reports and that they had a deadline in November: "We believe they will speed up work and the Parliament's reading on…

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Siegfried Mureșan and Carla Tavares - ©  D.R.

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