![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) * WhatsApp service * About Us ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) ## Wrong number # EU spent a quarter of the seven-year budget in 2020 and 2021 July 12, 2023, 3:53 p.m. (CEST) The EU wants more money from its member states. She receives a lot of criticism for this. But is the long-term budget really completely gone? The crises of recent years have also affected the European Union (EU). leave their traces. After the corona pandemic, war and inflation, they are Holes in the association's budget are so big that the EU Commission recently... demanded more money from the member states. But one circulating on the internet Claim that the EU money pot, which was supposed to last until 2027, is already completely empty, does not stand up to closer inspection. ## Evaluation There is no evidence that the EU will meet its long-term budget plan of more than one trillion euros for the period from 2021 to 2027 issued after two years. According to the EU Budget Directorate General Commission was in 2021 and 2022 together about a quarter of the total available budgets. ## Facts The statement that is currently spreading on social networks can be probably due to tweets from Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban. On June 29, 2023, shortly before the start of a two-day EU summit, he wrote, Brussels is running out of money after just two years in its seven-year budget (“Just 2 years into the 7-year budget, #Brussels is running out of money”). In a video, the head of state says: “We want to know who is responsible is responsible for bringing the European Union to the brink of bankruptcy bring". That the one trillion should already be gone, like on Facebook claimed, but Orban did not say directly. The seven-year budget of the EU \- also long-term budget plan ("long- term budget") or multiannual financial framework ("multiannual financial framework”, MFF) - is the overall budget for EU spending. For the For the period from 2021 to 2027, this budget totals 1.2 Trillion euros. Together with the NextGenerationEU funding program, around two trillion euros planned. «In 2021 and 2022, the total expenditure from the EU Budget and NextGenerationEU to 227,996.2 million euros and 243,321, respectively million euros,” said the German Press Agency when asked Directorate General Budget of the EU Commission. Together that corresponds to around 23 Percent of total funds from MFF and NextGenerationEU until 2027. Expenditure of the EU can also be viewed online - the figures from 2022 can be found but not there yet. EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said when asked by Journalists say Orban did not take the opportunity at the summit at the end of June to address his concerns. If he had asked, she would have replied that «We can all testify that the EU is strong and prosperous and we are one have a very transparent system of checks and balances: the Court of Auditors, that Parliament, the Council, to name just three,” von der Leyen is quoted as saying. The fact that Viktor Orban is sharply critical of the EU and vice versa is not new. At the end of 2022, a large majority of EU states had agreed to Payments of 6.3 billion euros planned for Hungary from the Freeze the Community budget. The reason is the concern that EU money could be embezzled if the fight against corruption is inadequate. (As of: July 12, 2023) ## Links Facebook post (archived) Tweet from Orban (archived) Video of Orban (archived) Euractiv article on von der Leyen (archived) Politico article (archived) Spiegel article (archived) EU editions (archived) EU long-term budget NextGenerationEU (archived) ### About dpa fact checks This fact check was carried out as part of the Facebook/Meta independent program Fact check created. Find detailed information about this program You here. Explanations from Facebook/Meta on how to deal with accounts that provide false information spread, can be found here. If you have any objections or comments regarding the content, please send them with a link to the affected Facebook post to faktencheck@dpa.com. To use Please use the relevant templates for this. Find information about objections You here. Did you know? If you have doubts about a message, claim, image or If you have a video, you can also contact the dpa fact check via WhatsApp. Further information can be found here. powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
7year budget gone within 2 years EU is bankrupt