EU Summit: Budget disagreement, disagreement over UK withdrawal, February 22 10:43
EU = European Union held extraordinary summit meeting on the second day, aiming for agreement on medium-term budget, but could not agree due to severe conflicts between countries over the size and allocation of budgets after UK withdrawal was.
The EU has convened its second day of extraordinary summit on the 21st, aiming for an agreement on a seven-year medium-term budget from next year to 2027.
In the medium-term budget, it is estimated that the withdrawal of the United Kingdom, which was a major contributor, will result in a shortage of 60 billion to 75 billion euros (about 7 trillion to 9 trillion yen). The distribution of such became the focus.
At the conference, members with large contributions, such as Denmark, demanded a reduction in budget size and a reduction in the burden of each country following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom, but EU funding is essential for domestic development Agricultural nations, such as Central and Eastern European countries and France, which receives many subsidies for agriculture, opposed this.
After the meeting, EU President Michel stated that "it was a very difficult negotiation," he said that he could not agree, and expressed his intention to hold another summit and hold another summit in the future. The conjectures of each country are fiercely confronted, and it is impossible to foresee when agreement can be reached.