In a very dramatic video, the Labour Party MEP Thomas Bajada has announced that the proposed EU budget for 2028 to 2034 will bring massive social suffering for vulnerable people currently depending on social benefits including people with disabilities and medical patients. I sincerely don’t know what he is talking about because the EU budget does not provide for recurrent and social expenditure and it mostly provides for capital expenditure and infrastructural products. I may be calling him later today to understand what he has in mind.
I checked the objection of the S&D to the budget and it mostly relates to a technical issue about merging the Cohesion Funds with the Agricultural Funds. Thomas Bajada also implied that the EU budget will take money from social funds and turn Europe into “a warrior Europe”. This is very deceptive and an outright lie. Malta will actually have its budget allocation increased from around €180 million per year to more than €200 million per year. You can find, Malta’s new capital allocation here. I still don’t understand how this can be bad for Malta, but all this talk about “warrior Europe” sounds like the same pro-Russian and far-right rhetoric that aims to keep Europe vulnerable to Russia’s threats.
I will be making further verifications later on today. The S&D along with the Greens are the most unreliable parties in the European Parliament to speak about finances and the economy, having been responsible for the energy policies that have lead Europe into a serious crisis of foreign dependency on energy apart from creating high electricity rates as a result of their policies.
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