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Jacob Wulff Wold
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Economy reporter at Euractiv. Sometimes cover tech, Norway

https://euractiv.com/sections/tech/
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Erasmus may become one of the few programmes that escape the Commission's recasting of everything into "competitiveness" in the next EU budget

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'An undisputed success' EU countries sceptical of Commission’s strategic Erasmus-reform | Euractiv
“Most” countries stressed that education and personal development should be the main focus, according to a council report
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November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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An internal council document reveals a bitter fight between richer and poorer countries over the design of the proposed €234 billion European competitiveness fund

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Poorer EU countries push Paris, Berlin for slice of €234bn industry fund | Euractiv
An internal council document reveals a bitter fight between richer and poorer countries over the industrial fund's design
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November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Weekly MFF update! 🧵

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November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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If we don't even know whether the rushed sweeping cuts to privacy will help European businesses, then what's the point? Seems like panic will just harm everyone

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EU’s digital law cuts spark fears and doubts on competitiveness | Euractiv
"If it's about competitiveness, this is certainly not helping," said Mario Mariniello from a Brussels-based think tank
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November 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Both Iceland and Norway have reacted strongly to the EU Commission not exempting them from new metal-trade protective measures

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Iceland will not sign defence statement as 'initial reaction' to EU metal-trade safeguards | Euractiv
The EU measures violate the spirit of the EEA agreement, according to Icelandic Foreign Minister Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
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November 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Parliament’s rebellion against the EU budget is now called off, after von der Leyen suggested legal changes to her own budget proposal. As institutional tensions ease, parliament divisions re-emerge.

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Disunited Parliament calls off EU budget rebellion | Euractiv
"The Commission’s proposals are quite good and meet our demands," said EPP MEP Herbert Dorfmann, while sources close to the file said centre-left S&D lawmakers were unhappy with the suggestions
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November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Budget Commissioner Piotr Serafin vowed to consider legal changes after a high-stakes Wednesday meeting to prevent parliament rebellion against a key part of the Commission’s €2 trillion budget proposal.

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November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The European Commission “is ready at the technical level” to change its €2 trillion, seven-year budget plan, and MEPs will force it to do so anyway if it outright refuses, the European Parliament’s co-lead negotiator Siegfried Muresan told me.

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INTERVIEW: Commission ready to tweak its €2tn budget blueprint, says top MEP | Euractiv
"The majority will be so large that it will be impossible for the Commission to further defend its proposal," Parliament co-lead budget negotiator said
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October 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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EU countries are divided on the reforms, and today's budget debate will expose whether the Danes really have the backing they need to charge ahead with the controversial new budget structure

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Danish minister slams Parliament for budget threats, defends controversial reforms | Euractiv
EU countries are divided on the reforms, and Tuesday's budget debate will expose whether the Danes really have the backing they need to charge ahead with the controversial structure
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October 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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While Parliament is mired in infighting over the proposed 2028-2034 EU budget, capitals are moving ahead with the Commission’s framework, according to a draft document obtained by Euractiv.

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EU countries move ahead on long-term budget as Parliament gridlocks | Euractiv
With MEPs divided over the Commission’s 2028–2034 budget plan, EU governments are moving forward without them
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October 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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The Commission is open to “improving” regional involvement in their controversial budget centralised budget proposal, Fitto said on Thursday.

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The Commission is open to changing part of its €2tn budget proposal, says region chief Fitto | Euractiv
"Now we have an important fundamental dialogue with the European Parliament," Fitto said.
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October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Leaders of the political groups will delay resolving two key disputes over the EU’s long-term €2 trillion budget due to internal disagreements, several European Parliament sources told Euractiv.

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Parliament delays key EU budget decisions over infighting | Euractiv
Group leaders were supposed to settle the controversial national plans on Wednesday
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October 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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A parliament move to block the €865 billion national plans would be self-defeating, say analysts.

The move is causing concern among EU diplomats, who fear budget talks will be hindered and politicised at a time when swift agreement is needed.
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Parliament's potential budget block will backfire, analysts say | Euractiv
Four EU diplomats told Euractiv that the Parliament's pushback over the national plans is creating uncertainty about the way forward
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October 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Parliament is on the verge of moving to block half of the Commission's MFF proposal

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S&D, EPP poised to block a key part of the Commission's EU budget proposal | Euractiv
A Parliament rejection of the plans would be a severe setback for the budget negotiations and would cast the ambitious timeline to agree by the end of 2026 into doubt
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October 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The EU’s richest countries are rebuffing demands from the bloc’s smaller economies to "geographically balance" the proposed €234 billion competitiveness fund.

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France, Germany on defensive over industrial fund access for smaller EU states | Euractiv
Berlin, Paris and other major funders of the EU budget have moved to block divvying up funds along geographic lines
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September 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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The proposed EU Budget lumps virtually all policy areas into only three main files, but maximum three over 20 parliament committees can lead on each of those, setting the stage for an all-or-nothing fight between the different committees.

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MEPs prep for power struggle over EU's next €2 trillion budget | Euractiv
Twenty parliamentary committees are vying for control of the bloc's biggest and most hotly disputed budget files
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September 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Exclusive: €122 billion of the Commisssion's revenue plan for the next budget may have been effectively shot down by EU countries last week.

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Exclusive: Commission's new corporate, tobacco levies under heavy fire from EU countries | Euractiv
No one was open to or even positive to the corporate tax, one EU diplomat said
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September 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Parliament and regions are outraged over their lack of inclusion in the Commission’s €2 trillion budget proposal for 2028 to 2034, but according to budget chief @sriso.bsky.social, it’s all just a big misunderstanding.

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Commission's budget tsar under fire for 'Trumpian' power grab | Euractiv
If you don't like it, you don't understand it, says head of DG Budget
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September 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Europe looms large in Norway's national election today – but only beneath the surface.

Most Norwegians are blissfully unaware of the European dimension of their politics and their political parties are happy to keep it that way.

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There is no 'EU' in Norway - Euractiv
As Norwegians head to the polls today, most neither know nor particularly care about the growing importance of the EU in their country's affairs
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September 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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How will Trump respond to this? @anupriyadatta.bsky.social has this huge story here. www.euractiv.com/section/tech...
EU fines Google €2.95 billion - Euractiv
The US tech giant was fined for violating EU competition rules in the advertising technology market
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September 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Don’t trust the Commission's budget spin!

They proposed to slash farmer subsidies by a whopping 34% in real terms, or €155 billion in current prices, in the 2028-2034 EU budget.

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The farmer subsidy cut is almost twice what the Commission says - Euractiv
The proposed budget will bring a €155 billion cut to EU farmer subsidies. But the unpalatable news is hidden by inflation and ambiguity surrounding the budget's new structure.
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July 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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[Opinion] At this point, Meta has no credibility to criticise EU rules, and any AI rulebook Meta would voluntarily follow would be a cop-out.

A good sign, then, that the company rejected the EU’s Code for general-purpose AI like ChatGPT.

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The Brief – EU AI code passes the Meta stress test, now it's time for hardball - Euractiv
Any AI rulebook Meta would voluntarily follow would be a cop-out.
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July 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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For those who doubted whether the Commission could really be serious about merging two thirds of the €1.2 trillion EU budget, I present to you:

“The European Economic, Territorial, Social, Rural and Maritime Sustainable Prosperity and Security Fund.”

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Commission to ditch regions with €800bn cash-for-reform plan - Euractiv
The system mirrors the EU's COVID-19 recovery fund, where the Commission negotiated directly with national capitals and bypassed regions in managing implementation
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July 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Will EU countries accept a bigger budget and the Commission’s radical reform ideas?

I reach out to all 27 states and decoded public and non-public position papers to map out all their positions.

Buckle up for negotiations!
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Where all EU countries stand on the next long-term EU budget - Euractiv
As the budget overhaul is not Brussels’ call alone, member states are drawing their lines and preparing for two years of tough negotiations
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July 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM