After discussing whether to call for a humanitarian pause or multiple pauses for five hours straight (eventually settling on the latter), EU leaders on Thursday night (26 October) moved on to the next topic of the evening: the EU budget for 2024.
The immediate problem leaders had to grapple with is the fact that the budget until 2027 is already overstretched.
Three main culprits are to blame.
First, Europe's continu...
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Wester is a journalist from the Netherlands with a focus on the green economy. He joined EUobserver in September 2021. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Vice, Motherboard, a science-based website, and climate economy journalist for The Correspondent.