🏛️ Politics 1d ago · Gregorio Sorgi, Bartosz Brzeziński

EU budget must bankroll Europe’s independence, von der Leyen says

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PARIS — The EU’s next seven-year budget needs to finance the bloc’s independence from foreign powers, Ursula von der Leyen said, as six countries led by Germany press to cut hundreds of billions of euros from the spending package.



Von der Leyen’s call for a bigger investment program comes as the bloc seeks to reduce its reliance on Chinese supply chains and critical raw materials, American technology and imported fossil fuels.



“The next budget will be the financial arm for our indepe

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