Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said on Thursday that the focus of the European Union’s next budget must be on security.
The government approved Estonia’s starting positions for negotiations on the future of the European Union’s long-term budget and cohesion policy, which concern the EU budget period starting in 2028.
The positions express Estonia’s stance regarding the areas most important for Estonia. Estonia’s budget priorities in the European Union are ensuring European security, continuing to support Ukraine, and establishing trans-EU transport and energy connections. Securing the external border of the European Union is also important for Estonia. When designing the cohesion policy, the state considers it important that, despite the growth of Estonia’s wealth, Estonia’s subsidies from the EU budget do not decrease sharply and that the regional needs of the member states are taken into account more when the subsidies are distributed.
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