The European People’s Party is threatening to reject the Commission’s proposal to the new EU multi -year budget if there are no immediate concessions to fund farmers and regions. The conflict, which is in a difficult position to Ursula von der Layen, threatens to shake the negotiations in the face of November’s critical vote.

In particular, as reported by Politico, the European People’s Party (EPP), from which the President of the Commission Ursula von der Laien and most commissioners come from, reiterated his threat not to support the proposal if there are no significant concessions for the funding of farmers and funding.

“If the Commission ignores our demands, our members consider rejection inevitable,” said Zigfried Mouresan, EPP’s head of negotiator for the next multiannual budgetary framework (MFF).

He added that the EPP “expects serious concessions from the Commission to November”.

“Rejection can only be avoided if the committee soon improves its proposal. No choice is excluded, “Zigfried Mouresan added in a written statement.

The European People’s Party (EPP) is stepping up pressure on the Commission, after days of meetings with budget -responsible commissioners, meetings that, according to party sources, were deemed “inadequate”.

If the controversy continues, the European Parliament could submit a proposal to reject the proposal in plenary on November 12 in Brussels. Such a move is likely to receive support from the majority of political groups.

The Commission, in theory, could ignore the vote of Parliament, but which would create serious problems then, as the approval of the next seven -year budget (2028–2034) requires the consent of Parliament.

To give more time in the negotiations, the EPP took a step behind its previous threat of submitting a proposal to the next week’s plenary in Strasbourg.

Under the strong pressure of farmers and mayors, the EPP has requested changes to the controversial plan to concentrate funds for farmers and regions, which corresponds to more than half of the total EU budget, to single funds managed by national governments.

“I had meetings with Georgia Commissioner Christopher Hansen … We’re trying to improve the proposal,” Herbert Dorfman, EPP’s leading MEP on agricultural issues, told Politico, warning that “we are ready to support it.”

In the coming days, senior EPP executives will continue their meetings with budget, agriculture and regional policy commissioners, Piotr Serafin, Christof Hansen and Rafael Fitto, in an effort to ensure concessions.