prime ministers and Finance ministers of the member states of the EU are going in the next as well as come together to agree on the EU budget. If that were to happen, it’s the first time since the outbreak of the coronapandemie with each other in real life, and instead of a video.

on Wednesday, the European Commission adopted a blueprint for the budget for the coming year, after which member states will have to negotiate the detailed content. In Brussels, a growing conviction that this is such a complex subject, not from behind a computer screen.

“No physical contact, no agreement on the budget, and I haven’t seen one that believes that it is through a video can be”, said a leading EU diplomat at Reuters news agency.

The begrotingsoverleg in other years, they can often be a difficult process, full of night-time work, but with the coronacrisis, there are still a lot of the more difficult points. The EU leaders, according to to find the exact one herstelfonds in order to support countries through the crisis. The opinions about this are sharply divided.