COMMENTARIES: Summit of EU leaders on the multiannual EU budget

Experts from the Institute for European Policy EUROPEUM comment on the EU summit of leaders on the multiannual budget, which took place on 10-11 December 2020 in Brussels.

Comment Topics:

• Christian Kvorning Lassen: General Assessment of the EUCO: Not Great, Not Terrible... But mostly good.
• Kateřina Davidová: Higher climate target is agreed, but the real work begins now.
• Zuzana Stuchlíková: Rule of Law – Can Everyone Truly be Happy about it?
• Vít Havelka: Budget Agreed – now the onus is on Member States to utilize it properly.
• Danielle Piatkiewicz: EU leadership, like the US are reaffirming commitment to tackle global challenges.

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Zuzana Stuchlíková
Associate Research Fellow

Expertise: Central Europe, EU Institutions

Danielle Piatkiewicz
Research Fellow

Areas of expertise: Transatlantic and Central and Eastern European foreign and security relations, democracy promotion and NATO.

Christian Kvorning Lassen
Deputy Director & Head of Research

Expertise: Migration/European migration crisis, EU foreign policy, Scandinavian politics, populism, EU enlargement policy

Vít Havelka
Senior Research Fellow

Expertise: EU institutional relations with member states, europeisation, transformation role of EU

Kateřina Davidová
Senior Research Fellow

Expertise: EU climate and energy policy, environmental protection