The European Commission adopted the EU budget proposal for 2025, which amounts to 199.7 billion euros, the executive vice-president of the EC in charge of economy in the interest of the people, Valdis Dombrovskis, informed today.
As reported by the MIA correspondent from Brussels, from the total funds in the EU Budget for the next year, 2.2 billion euros are intended for the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA III), and 500 million euros for the Mechanism for the Implementation of the Growth Plan of The Western Balkans, as part of the item to support European partners and the interests of the Union in the world.
- The draft budget for 2025 directs funds where they can make the biggest difference, in cooperation and in line with the needs of EU member states and our partners around the world, and to make Europe more resilient and fit for the future for the benefit of its citizens and EU businesses, noted Dombrovskis.
The achievement of such goals will be ensured by encouraging green and digital transitions, by creating new jobs and at the same time strengthening Europe's strategic autonomy and its global role.
The draft budget foresees continued support for the countries of the Western Balkans, for Syrian refugees in Turkey and the wider region of the Middle East, for the countries of the southern neighborhood of the EU intended to deal with migration, as well as for providing stable and predictable support for Ukraine.
It is planned that the annual budget of the EU will be supplemented with about 72 billion euros intended for the fulfillment of the political priorities of the Union, according to the changes made in February of this year in the Multiannual financial framework of the bloc until 2027.
