Lavish EU Aid Packages’ are ‘Over’: The ‘Green Deal’ Is First Casualty
Alastair Crooke- As Von der Leyen made clear, EU states must make additional contributions, totalling a further 66 billion euros, to the EU budget -- just to pass through 2023.
As Von der Leyen made clear, EU states must make additional contributions, totalling a further 66 billion euros, to the EU budget — just to pass through 2023.
The EU ‘Green Deal’ was due to cost €620 billion. It was all agreed. However, as Eurointelligence reports, the deal now is almost wholly unfunded — because of ‘lavish’ Ukraine aid. The Commission has a ‘mere’ €82.5 billion allocated. Peanuts! So the Green Agenda is set to fade from political view.
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