{"id":209034,"date":"2026-05-11T07:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/mff-mayhem-should-the-eu-increase-its-budget-or-focus-on-austerity\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:49:03","slug":"mff-mayhem-should-the-eu-increase-its-budget-or-focus-on-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/mff-mayhem-should-the-eu-increase-its-budget-or-focus-on-austerity\/","title":{"rendered":"MFF mayhem: should the EU increase its budget, or focus on austerity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next MFF has sparked a high-stakes tug-of-war between the European Commission, which proposed an initial \u20ac1.8 trillion plan, the European Parliament, insisting on an additional \u20ac200 billion, and &#8220;frugal&#8221; member states determined to slash spending.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/11\/mff-mayhem-should-the-eu-increase-its-budget-or-focus-on-austerity\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next MFF has sparked a high-stakes tug-of-war between the European Commission, which proposed an initial \u20ac1.8 trillion plan, the European Parliament, insisting on an additional \u20ac200 billion, and &#8220;frugal&#8221; member states determined to slash spending. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":209035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}