Ireland Holds the EU Budget Pen as Brussels Warns It's Spending Too Much

Ireland is chairing the negotiations on the EU's next €1.9 trillion seven-year budget — and Brussels just turned the spotlight on Ireland's own spending. European affairs ministers descended on Brussels today under Ireland's EU presidency to hammer out the 2028–2034 budget framework, with Minister for European Affairs Thomas Byrne caught between frugal northern states demanding hundreds of billions in cuts and agricultural blocs fighting to protect CAP...