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EPISODE · Dec 19, 2025 · 23 MIN

EU budget showdown: MEP Nerudová on power struggles, cuts and new priorities

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Negotiating the EU’s next seven-year budget is one of the toughest jobs in Brussels — and Czech MEP Danuše Nerudová is at the centre of it.In this episode of the EU Perspectives podcast, Nerudová, on of the key European Parliament negotiators on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and rapporteur on new EU “own resources,” explains why budget talks are already tense, why Parliament threatened to reject the Commission’s proposal, and why Europe cannot keep adding new priorities without increasing revenues.

Negotiating the EU’s next seven-year budget is one of the toughest jobs in Brussels — and Czech MEP Danuše Nerudová is at the centre of it.In this episode of the EU Perspectives podcast, Nerudová, on of the key European Parliament negotiators on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and rapporteur on new EU “own resources,” explains why budget talks are already tense, why Parliament threatened to reject the Commission’s proposal, and why Europe cannot keep adding new priorities without increasing revenues.

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