The EU budget is where grand strategy meets petty squabbling.
1 October 2026
Nobody knows when it will happen exactly, yet everybody knows it will be ugly when it comes.
At an EU summit some time within the next 12 months, the bloc’s 27 national leaders will engage in the modern political equivalent of hand-to-hand combat: agreeing on the EU’s seven-year budget.
Veterans of the ritual will arrive in Brussels with a half-dozen shirts at the ready.
At an EU summit some time within the next 12 months, the bloc’s 27 national leaders will engage in the modern political equivalent of hand-to-hand combat: agreeing on the EU’s seven-year budget.
Veterans of the ritual will arrive in Brussels with a half-dozen shirts at the ready.