{"id":130614,"date":"2024-05-22T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T06:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-policy-von-der-leyen-spars-with-rivals-on-eu-budget-and-chinese-trade-war\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T06:15:11","slug":"eu-policy-von-der-leyen-spars-with-rivals-on-eu-budget-and-chinese-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/eu-policy-von-der-leyen-spars-with-rivals-on-eu-budget-and-chinese-trade-war\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Policy \u2013 Von der Leyen spars with rivals on EU budget and Chinese trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130614\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nWith two weeks until European elections, candidates diverged on the size of the bloc\u2019s trillion-euro spending, EU air defence, and whether to impose US-style punitive tariffs on Beijing. Rival candidates to take the helm of the European Commission sparred over the size of the bloc&#8217;s trillion-euro budget, as the EU election campaign enters its final weeks. Ursula von der Leyen hinted at a new centrally-funded European air defence system and tariffs on Chinese goods as the German centre-right politican seeks a second term as Commission president. But she and her rivals \u2013 including Sandro Gozi, a French MEP from Emmanuel Macron\u2019s Renew Europe party, and Danish right-wing candidate Anders Vistisen \u2013 don&#8217;t see eye to eye on how to adjust the EU\u2019s finances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t cut the budget, you increase it,\u201d said Gozi, saying that new EU revenue sources such as a tax on food waste could help pay for new challenges like climate change and security, adding: \u201cYou cannot drive towards the future looking at the rear-view mirror.\u201d Brussels\u2019 spending amounted to nearly \u20ac250 billion in 2022, and \u2013 with members each clamouring for their own priorities and pandemic-era debts still to be repaid \u2013 setting a new seven-year framework for the EU budget will be among the most politically challenging tasks for the next Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Gozi\u2019s approach was broadly supported by Socialist candidate Nicolas Schmit, currently Luxembourg\u2019s EU commissioner, who argued the current budget is \u201cnot enormous&#8221;, and that that building up Europe\u2019s defences in the wake of Russian aggression \u201cwill not be possible without some European indebtedness\u201d. Von der Leyen was less precise about her intentions, suggesting that she might be prepared to reduce expensive farming subsidies and aid to poorest regions, to prioritise new areas of spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgriculture and cohesion will play a role without any question, but we have to focus on what is most important at the moment,\u201d von der Leyen said, promoting a potentially controversial new project for a bloc that has traditionally steered clear of military matters. \u201cI would advocate for example for an air defence shield as a common European project,\u201d said von der Leyen, who was previously Germany\u2019s defence minister, an initiative that, if pursued, could require significant central funding. Vistisen, meanwhile, pledged to cut EU staffing levels by 10,000, and abolish half of the bloc\u2019s agencies \u2013 though wasn\u2019t drawn on the exact cost savings he expected to make from those changes.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates also clashed on how to face up to aggressive trade practices from Beijing \u2013 with von der Leyen suggesting she would diverge from the US, which last week imposed sharp tariff increases on Chinese goods, including chips, solar panels and electric vehicles. \u201cWe share some of the concerns of our [US] counterparts but we have a different approach, a much more tailored approach,\u201d von der Leyen said, highlighting a months-long investigation the EU has undertaken into whether China\u2019s trade practices comply with global norms.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/05\/21\/von-der-leyen-spars-with-rivals-on-eu-budget-chinese-trade-war\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/05\/21\/von-der-leyen-spars-with-rivals-on-eu-budget-chinese-trade-war\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/eu-policy-von-der-leyen-spars-with-rivals-on-eu-budget-and-chinese-trade-war\/\">EU Policy &#8211; Von der Leyen spars with rivals on EU budget and Chinese trade war<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[274,506,14614,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-130614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-eu","tag-policy","tag-president-von-der-layen","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}