He said the EU’s next long-term budget is “not a neutral accounting exercise” and “has to mirror great ambitions and European solidarity” — despite the constraints of Brexit, which the Commission estimates will blow a hole of between €12 billion and €13 billion a year in the EU’s accounts. [...]
“I discovered during the migration crisis, and also during the economic and financial crisis, that there are full-time Europeans who are always there when the necessary measure of Europe is required. And then I discovered that there are part-time Europeans who sometimes take part, who sometimes don’t come to work but who make a lot of speeches,” Juncker said in his speech. [...]
At the same conference, Corina Creţu, the European commissioner for regional policy, warned that thousands of EU-funded projects will be at risk if there are delays to agreeing the next EU budget, which the Commission wants finalized by the European Parliament election in May 2019.
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