ICYMI: The European Parliamentary Research Service published an analysis of the Commission’s proposal for the 2028–2034 EU budget, comparing it with the current Multiannual Financial Framework (#MFF).

📖 Read it here: www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...

📌Ahead of Commission's #MFF proposal, here’s a reminder of Parliament's position (adopted in May):

• Current 1% EU-27 GNI ceiling is insufficient
• No to national plans
• Mega-funds not fit for purpose
• Strong parliamentary accountability essential

🔗Details: europa.eu/!jk4mm3

Green Claims Directive: EP co-rapporteurs hold a press conference at 15.15

Following the Commission’s announcement on Friday it intends to withdraw the legislative proposal, the Council has decided to cancel the trilogue scheduled for Monday

Details ⤵️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

🚨On 25 June at 15:15 CET, Parliament's #MFF co-rapporteurs
MEPs Carla Tavares and Siegfried Mureșan will take part in a roundtable on "The next EU long-term budget: Spending challenges and revenue options", organised by the EP Think Tank.

Registration by 23 June.

Details ▶️ europa.eu/!mctx66

What is the life of an 11-year-old boy worth?

It’s a question we have been grappling with in Brussels since the horrific events of Monday evening, when a small boy was killed under the wheels of a police car in Parc Elisabeth.

BN #105: An Elisabethan Tragedy

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For own resources nerds! 👓

You'll find the presentations of the experts who presented their views today on OR to the Parliament's Budgets Committee here ▶️ europa.eu/!x4KkGv

Missed it? Rewatch the workshop here ⤵️
europa.eu/!CXvm9k

This week on the European Parliament's Budgets Committee:

- @piotrserafin.bsky.social will present Commission's draft budget for 2026.
- MEPs will vote on opinion on the Draghi Report and the Capital Markets Union.

More in the draft agenda👇
europa.eu/!Dw7Cnh
Follow live👇
europa.eu/!xW3PXQ

📢 Calling all journalists!

Submissions are now open for the 5th edition of the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism.

Each year, Parliament awards this prize to recognise outstanding journalism that promotes or defends core EU values.

🔗 Learn more in our press release: europa.eu/!nhRHV7

Parliament’s priorities for the EU’s post-2027 long-term budget

Parliament’s vision and demands for the EU’s 2028-2034 budget are set out in a resolution adopted by MEPs on Wednesday.

Details ⬇️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

Today the Budgets Committee backed MEPs Mureșan and Tavares's report calling for a significantly more ambitious long-term EU budget (MFF) that can deliver on EU citizens’ rising expectations against a rapidly changing global backdrop.

23➕/ 9➖/ 2⭕️

Details ⤵️
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

“Trade is an exclusive competence of the Union and Parliament stands fully behind the @ec.europa.eu in its response against US tariffs” Bernd Lange, full statement of the Trade Committee Chair 🔗 europa.eu/!JDXXfR. Importance of trade between EU and US in recent years ⤵️

🚨Just started

Trade MEPs hear from Leopoldo Rubinacci on 🇪🇺-🇺🇸trade relations, including recently announced US tariffs on European steel and aluminum exports and the EU's response.

Draft agenda➡️ europa.eu/!rWvhBR
Tune in now ⤵️

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As someone who grew up on an island in the Mediterranean, I’m no stranger to blue skies.

But this Blue Sky is different 😃. Here, I’m new.

So as I do my first post, I look forward to connect, interact & continue to advance democracy. This is what we do at the European Parliament.

Watch this space.

🗳️The European Parliament approved the second von der Leyen Commission. See how each MEP voted here ⤵️

www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...