Jacob Wulff Wold
@wulffwold.bsky.social
Journalist, MSE Applied Physics Currently taking a break after covering tech, politics, EU budget negotiations in Brussels
Against @aftenposten.no's editorial, I argue Norway’s Epstein scandal does not show “precisely that key institutions are working”, but in fact shows 30 years of neglect. Now is not the time for Norway’s institutions to pat themselves on the back. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
Feil tidspunkt for å hedre norske institusjoner
Det har vært jevnlig med varsler og reportasjer som burde ha fått alarmene til å gå helt siden 1996.
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I think very few outside Norway have realised how bad the country’s spiralling Epstein scandal really is. It strikes the very pillars of Norway's peace broker platform – the Oslo Accords, the Peace Prize, even the whole foreign ministry – and it's growing www.euractiv.com/news/the-sca...
The scandal that shattered Norway’s image | Euractiv
Norway’s Epstein scandal is testing whether the country’s global influence rested solely on moral authority – or on an elite long shielded from scrutiny
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Weekly MFF update: ◇ EU leaders Thursday “competitiveness summit” will feed into the size and design of the €234 billion ECF and the budget at large www.euractiv.com/news/budget-...
BUDGET BRIEF: Competitiveness weak | Euractiv
Leaders' competitiveness summit, MEPs' budget positions, return hubs funding
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...And what did von der Leyen have to offer? A "roadmap on the single market" and "targeted" initiatives, to pave way for changes later. This isn't the first time leaders reach for a 'two-speed Europe' to find a way forward either www.euractiv.com/news/von-der...
Von der Leyen floats two-speed Europe ahead of economy summit | Euractiv
EU unity gives way to the rise of multi-country coalitions
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I wouldn't get too excited about this week's competitiveness push. Europe's problems are well-known and hard to change www.euractiv.com/news/why-eu-...
Why EU leaders won’t rescue Europe’s economy this week | Euractiv
Big reforms remain either technically complex or politically untouchable, as governments resist ceding powers to Brussels
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Starting point for EP's internal negotiations on the next EU budget (in constant 2025 euros and not counting covid loan repayments) Find the agriculture-cohesion split and more here: www.euractiv.com/news/in-numb...
#EUBudget: Socialist MEPs want the old #EU budget back, by @wulffwold.bsky.social | Euractiv www.euractiv.com/news/sociali...
Socialist MEPs want the old EU budget back | Euractiv
MEPs propose restoring separate EU budget lines for key programmes
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MEPs weapon of choice to finance the EU budget is a digital services tax, but Trump is a major political obstacle www.euractiv.com/news/meps-un...
MEPs unite to pitch taxing American tech companies | Euractiv
But "as long as Trump is the US President, it will not come back”, according to Darvas from Bruegel
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S&D wants separate budget lines for - health (EU4HEALTH, €8.9bn) - climate (LIFE, €6.2bn), - social policy (ESF+, €125bn), - regional development (ERDF, €227bn), - the poorest regions (CF, €31bn) - rural farmer subsidies (CAP P2, €83.8bn) www.euractiv.com/news/sociali...
Socialist MEPs want the old EU budget back | Euractiv
MEPs propose restoring separate EU budget lines for key programmes
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Here's a write-up of the financing part www.euractiv.com/news/can-the...
Can the EU tax its way to a €2tn budget? | Euractiv
Countries are scrutinising the €58-billion-a-year plan to tax companies, tobacco, carbon emmissions, and e-waste
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Jacob Wulff Wold@wulffwold.bsky.social · 6mo agoWeekly MFF update: ◇ Countries, MEPs and EU auditors are debating how to finance the budget. I dissect the real political function of new EU own resources here www.euractiv.com/news/budget-... ...
Weekly MFF update: ◇ Countries, MEPs and EU auditors are debating how to finance the budget. I dissect the real political function of new EU own resources here www.euractiv.com/news/budget-... ...
BUDGET BRIEF: The EU's pitch for its own resources | Euractiv
'Buy European', national and regional partnership plans, and more
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UN rights chief to EU: Hands off human rights law
UN rights chief to EU: Hands off human rights law
'It starts with migrants, but it can quickly go to other parts of the population as well'
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Weekly MFF update: ◇ Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is emerging as a key power broker for the budget, showcased in her joint declaration with Merz last week www.euractiv.com/news/budget-...
BUDGET BRIEF: Meloni in the middle | Euractiv
Italy, competitiveness coordination tool, CAP legal articles
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The long-overdue Competitiveness Coordination tool is facing further delays, obstructing Council work on the new €234 billion European Competitiveness Fund and the €175 billion Horizon research programme www.euractiv.com/news/eu-dela...
EU delays high-stakes industrial policy tool again, 'annoying' capitals | Euractiv
The delay is irritating capitals and slowing their work on the EU’s next budget
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"It is becoming more difficult for us," Norway's Foregin Minister Espen Barth Eide told me. Norway’s once-cherished independence leaves it vulnerable to coercion, tariffs and, in a worst-case scenario, interference with its sovereign wealth fund. www.euractiv.com/news/nobel-i...
Nobel irony: Norway's moral authority meets the age of Trump | Euractiv
Norway’s long-cherished independence has suddenly left the proud Nordic nation vulnerable to coercion, tariffs, and even threats to its €1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund
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Weekly MFF update 🧵 ◇ MEPs had their first full NRPP debate yesterday, showing many are still in denial regarding the merge of farmer and regional subsidies www.euractiv.com/news/budget-...
BUDGET BRIEF: MEPs begin the budget brawl | Euractiv
MFF rapporteurs, national and regional partnership plans, own resources
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#EUPolitics & #EUBudget: The #MEPs shaping the #EU’s next budget, by @wulffwold.bsky.social | Euractiv www.euractiv.com/news/the-mep...
The MEPs shaping the EU’s next budget | Euractiv
Who is pulling the strings in the European Parliament as talks on the EU’s proposed €2 trillion budget are underway? Euractiv spoke to staffers to find out
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And if there was any doubt, Meloni is claiming victory x.com/i/status/200...
Giorgia Meloni on X: "Accolgo con soddisfazione la decisione della Commissione Europea di modificare, come richiesto dall’Italia, la proposta di nuovo quadro finanziario pluriennale per rendere disponibili, già dal 2028, ulteriori 45 miliardi di euro per la Politica Agricola Comune. Assieme alle" / X
Accolgo con soddisfazione la decisione della Commissione Europea di modificare, come richiesto dall’Italia, la proposta di nuovo quadro finanziario pluriennale per rendere disponibili, già dal 2028, ulteriori 45 miliardi di euro per la Politica Agricola Comune. Assieme alle
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Jacob Wulff Wold@wulffwold.bsky.social · 7mo ago...And there it is! VDL proposes to give countries access "to up to two thirds of the amount normally available for the midterm review" – some €45bn – to boost farmers in 2028. Mercosur unlocked? @sofiamazzanaro.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/von-der...
...And there it is! VDL proposes to give countries access "to up to two thirds of the amount normally available for the midterm review" – some €45bn – to boost farmers in 2028. Mercosur unlocked? @sofiamazzanaro.bsky.social www.euractiv.com/news/von-der...
Von der Leyen proposes to unlock €45 billion for farmers to secure support for Mercosur deal | Euractiv
Italy and France have been pushing the Commission to grant more concessions on the agricultural policy budget
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Weekly MFF update: ◇ The Commission is expected to suggest budget tweaks this week to appease farmers, in exchange for Italy signing the EU-Mercosur trade deal www.euractiv.com/news/budget-...
BUDGET BRIEF: A Mercosur bargain | Euractiv
CAP, European Council, rebates, own resources
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Weekly MFF update 🧵 ◇ EU leaders will discuss the budget for the first time in the European Council this week, hoping to agree on an ambitious negotiation timeline www.euractiv.com/news/budget-...
BUDGET BRIEF: EU leaders to take a first pass | Euractiv
European Council, MEP budget jobs, rebates
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NEW: Italy threatens to block the only substantive MFF-point in the draft EUCO conclusions over paybacks to the richest EU countries www.euractiv.com/news/italy-t...
Parliament’s budget committee finally resolved its fight over who should lead work on the MFF files, easing tensions between political groups. REGI and AGRI still need to find a compromise on Monday. www.euractiv.com/news/meps-en...
MEPs end months-long fight over who leads some key EU budget files | Euractiv
Despite starting the week furious over an EPP power grab, the socialists, Renew and the Greens ended it saying the final carve-up felt fair enough
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"The current GNI corrections will be [discontinued] OR [maintained]" reads the new Council negotiating box, a change from previous versions that grants Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria a powerful bargaining chip. www.euractiv.com/news/rich-eu...
Rich EU countries keep 'unjustified' paybacks on the table for next budget | Euractiv
The countries get over €9 billion annually in reductions of their contributions to the EU budget
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Weekly MFF update: www.euractiv.com/news/budget-... Tensions are high as MEPs fight to resolve a spat over who should be rapporteurs on the €865 billion national plans. Group leaders of EPP, S&D and Renew meet today.
BUDGET BRIEF: EPP against the rest | Euractiv
NRPP rapporteurs, Parliament's interim report, CAP, European Competitiveness Fund
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First MFF numbers from Parliament! Size: €1.783 trillion, or 1.27% of the EU’s GNI (constant 2025 prices, not counting NGEU repayments) NRPPs: +€89bn ECF: +€24bn Horizon: +€18bn CEF: +€8bn It also floats a digital services tax, more here: www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...
No better time than today for a reminder from @elisabraun.bsky.social that Brussels' standard response to scandal is a shrug. But sometimes, the names involved "are big enough to pierce the Bubble’s thick skin," she writes. www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-...
The Brief – The oh-so-cosy Brussels Bubble gets a brutal jolt | Euractiv
In a town built on overlapping careers and intricate social networks, the appearance of conflict of interest can be nearly as corrosive as the real thing
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EXCLUSIVE: Procurement fraud, corruption, and criminal conflict of interest. Latest major scandal hits the EU institutions as police raid EU External Action Service and College of Europe in sweeping fraud probe 🔗 http://dlvr.it/TPZh1K
The Commission should turn its simplification agenda on itself to cut costs, say EU governments. www.euractiv.com/news/capital...
Capitals push for major restructuring of EU institutions to curb costs | Euractiv
Brussels’ administration should be subjected to the same streamlining effort being imposed across other policy areas, they argued
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