Help shape the next EU long-term budget – have your say by 6 May

The road to the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)

The Communication lays the groundwork for reflections on how to adapt the EU's long-term budget to evolving needs and priorities. It outlines the key policy and budgetary challenges that will shape the design of the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). These include growing geopolitical tensions, irregular migration, food security and nature protection, climate change, remaining barriers within the single market.

The document sets out a new approach towards making the EU budget simpler, more impactful, and more focused. It calls for a true policy-based budget ensuring synergies between policies; greater simplification, coherence, focus on performance; maximising public investment and leveraging private capital; a balance between predictability for long-term investments and flexibility to respond to crises.

The new approach to the EU budget also includes a plan for each country with key reforms and investments, designed and implemented in partnership with national, regional, and local authorities, a new Competitiveness Fund, and modernised revenues.

Public consultations

All Europeans are invited to have their sayon the next budget, ahead of the Commission’s formal proposal in July 2025. Once agreed, later in 2025, the next long-term budget will take effect in January 2028.

Submit your contribution to the EU budget consultations by 6 May