Our #EuropeChats discussion on the EU budget and its future outlook is wrapping up. Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks:
📽️ Highlight clips from the discussion
🎤 Podcast edition over on #Spotify and other leading podcatchers
💡 And more episodes yet to come!

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"From its foundation, the EU's financing was based on Own Resources. Sometimes now people discuss this as if it was a revolutionary idea, but this was there from the beginning."

- Klaus Welle, former Secretary-General of the @europarl.europa.eu

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"What I think is very useful is that we open up other expenditures for #defence spending. Let's take research: why shouldn't we finance research on #defence? Why should we force our startups to move to the US?"

- Klaus Welle during our #EuropeChats episode

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"In the past we have seen that with a limited budget, there's always a danger that old priorities crowd out the new priorities", warns former Secretary-General of the @europarl.europa.eu, Klaus Welle in our #EuropeChats recording.

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"The Common Agricultural Policy has allowed us to be self-sufficient on #agriculture, with good quality and high environmental standards. When you travel to the US, you can definitely see the difference."

- Klaus Welle on the #CAP during our #EuropeChats

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"European Public Goods, such as #defence and border protection, should be financed by a common EU budget," says Klaus Welle during our #EuropeChats

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"If you have a 7-years planning and don't have decent #flexibility, surprises are always going to show up. If all the amounts are fixed, how can we face these unexpected needs?"

- Klaus Welle, Former Secretary-General of the @europarl.europa.eu during our #EuropeChats

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"We are not yet in a negotiating stage with the #MFF; we are at a positioning stage. Debate will heat up but it's a long process"

- Explains TEPSA's Secretary-General Jim Cloos during our #EuropeChats

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"The priorities of the EU change throughout the years. At the beginning of the legislature, the Green Deal was the priority. Now it's #security. But we are fixed in a 7-years budget"

- Klaus Welle, Former Secretary-General of the @europarl.europa.eu

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"Once there is #unanimity in the Council, the space for Parliament to influence the debate [on the #MFF] is limited. That's why Parliament needs to come early in the debates."

- Klaus Welle, Former Secretary-General of the @europarl.europa.eu

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How has the Multiannual Financial Framework changed through the years? Why is it so important? And can the new #MFF be considered a Hamiltonian moment for Europe?

These are the questions explored in this new episode of #EuropeChats.

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