{"id":297046,"date":"2026-09-10T12:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=297046"},"modified":"2026-09-10T12:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:20:22","slug":"merz-calls-for-hundreds-of-billions-of-euros-in-cuts-to-eu-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/297046\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz calls for hundreds of billions of euros in cuts to EU budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for hundreds of billions of euros in cuts to the European Commission&rsquo;s proposed budget for 2028-2034 years.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was made by Merz after meeting European Council President Antonio Costa in Berlin, noting that the Commission&rsquo;s proposals for the next multiannual financial framework envisage a 60% rise over the current seven-year budget period.<\/p>\n<p>He calls for hundreds of billions of euros in cuts to EU budget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for hundreds of billions of euros in cuts to the European Commission&rsquo;s proposed budget for 2028-2034 years. The statement was made by Merz after meeting European Council President Antonio Costa in Berlin, noting that the Commission&rsquo;s proposals for the next multiannual financial framework envisage a 60% rise over the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":297041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297047,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297046\/revisions\/297047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}