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Articoli Correlati: MEPs - Long-term budget - emergenza sanitaria Covid – 19

Not only the spread of the COVID-19 has originated a global sanitary emergency, but it also heavily contributed to create crisis and confusion on the determination of budget for corporation and for institution such as the EU. Indeed, MEPs have acknowledged some difficulties in defining a new long-term EU budget, and they claim for a drafting of an urgent 2021 contingency plan. On the other side, the definition of the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027 must go on and take under consideration the fallout from the current sanitary emergency in the long term, it is all the more urgent for the Commission to draft a contingency plan that can enter into force on 1st January 2021. It is acknowledged that the COVID-19 crisis caused a large delay on the operation for an MFF agreement as the Chair and Coordinators of the Committee on Budgets underlined even if the Parliament has asked for such a contingency plan since October 2019. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on March 28^th, 2020, claimed that “the Commission will propose changes in the MFF proposal that will allow to address the fallout of the coronavirus crisis. This will include a stimulus package that will ensure that cohesion within the Union is maintained through solidarity and responsibility.”