About the EU budget conduct guide on 2026, as a plasticine remodeling tool

In the plenary session in Strasbourg from April 1-3, 2025, the European Parliament adopted the guiding lines for the EU budget for 2026, with 441 votes for, 173 against and 70 abstentions.

The document draws generous, but vague and deeply unequal priorities, such as consolidating EU’s defense and security capacities, stimulating public and private investments, reducing competences gaps and financing the digital and green transition, along with purely theoretical and declarative objectives regarding economic and social cohesion and social market.

Beyond these pompous and general formulas, this budget conduct guide continues to reflect the same old, rigid and biased directions with which the EU bureaucracy has become accustomed to in recent years. Funds that should contribute to the reduction of inequalities between Member States and EU regions are reorient to areas such as militarization or abstract ecological objectives, with illusory benefits, but certain negative consequences – poor population, bankruptcy of small and medium -sized enterprises and acute economic inagalities. Funds that were, however, almost inaccessible to those who need the most real support, will now be reoriented to satisfy bureaucratic ambitions or pseudo-scientific chimeras, more ideological than socially legitimacy.

At the same time, proposals such as the introduction of a 3% tax on the assets that exceed 100 million euros (a fee that would bring to the budget 121 billion euros) are rejected and treated with contempt, although they could bring a minimum correction of structural imbalances and the economic inequalities that generate poverty, hunger and extremism. The French model of the « solidarity tax on wealth », abandoned by Macron, has shown that such measures are possible and that they can work. Ironically, precisely these initiatives, based on a minimum sense of equity, are considered too radical to the detriment of the great corporations that increase their profit margins and cause half of the recent inflation by this increase (I recognize the IMF and the European Central Bank!).

Regarding multinationals, according to the EU tax observer, they registered over 1,000 billion USD in tax havens in 2022, of which half right inside the EU. This type of « fiscal optimization » should be addressed in front, by introducing a minimum tax rate of 25%, applied equitably in all Member States. A proposal to amend the budget guide on 2026 in this regard, which I voted, was rejected by the majority of the corporate in the European Parliament-I refer to the EPPs (popular, former conservatives, today a bit neo-Marxists), S&D (socialists, that is to the left …) and Renew (progressives, globalists).

The figures are grieving: in recent years, 0.5% of the EU population has increased its wealth by 65%, while we, the rest of the society, had to bear the costs of a sanitary crisis, (invented) climatic, geo-political, energy and economic that continually fragile and vulnerabil. It is difficult to ignore the fact that, although the pandemic, the fight with climate change and the war were disastrous for the vast majority of EU citizens, they functioned as accelerators of wealth accumulation for a restricted, willful and declared neo-feudal. We are today in a situation similar to the early Middle Ages, only that we have to bear higher and more irrational taxes and taxes than the smoking tax and the tenth applicable to the servants.

Beyond rhetoric, the EU budget guidelines on 2026 seem to be built to preserve status quoThe care for the care for cohesion and equity, direct money for arming and ambiguous budgetary allocations are made for financing information and « modern casting » (this type of denunciation is not a guarantee of justice, justice and truth, but an essence in the totalitarian democracy).

At the same time, proposals for allocating funds are rejected for a deep reform of common agricultural policy, to combat the inequalities between farmers and to restore food sovereignty, for real investments in public housing, to cope with the effects of the cost of life and the deepening of poverty, to combat poverty. Instead of becoming a correction and support tool for many, the EU remains a technocratic structure that mimics progress, but reproduces and deepens imbalances.

All this comes against the background of an uneasy geopolitical evolution, in which the distance from the United States becomes more and more dangerous. The somewhat infantile irrational attempt to imagine a European « strategic autonomy », without a strong and credible connection with the US, is not only random, but also self -worthy. It is proposed that the measures of commercial retrival against the US, in response to the new tariff and customs policy of the Trump administration, will be supported by all 27 EU Member States, although facilities have only highly industrialized countries, such as Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, and countries in Pluton Second rather, they had the lack of American facilities. And now, the losses will be common, as were the losses caused by the unprecedented increase in energy and from breaking the economic relations of Germany and France with Russia.

As we know, the US has closed USAID funding (let’s not forget that FBI has investigated illegal payments of tens of billions of this fund), but the guidelines for the 2026 budget require that this money will be provided from the EU budget, so from our money …

It seems that the editors and voters of this budget guide are convinced that the financing of the emptiness left by the disintegration of USAID will fill the holes already foreshadowed by the expenses with the arming and the cherry climate transition.

In any case, to hope for an economic growth coached by the « relaxation of inflation » is cynical and twice harmful. Cynical, because the enormous public debts caused by the failed public policies from 2019 – 2025 will be reduced by the effect of diluting their nominal value (minimum 40% in the last 6 years …). Twice harmful because (i) inflation is a theft from the wealth of normal citizens acquired through work, a hidden and contrasting tax on ordinary human revenues, and (ii) inflation will compress consumption, so production and trade, so jobs, training even more poverty.

All this comes against the background of an increasingly obvious direction towards centralized digital control, by implementing unique digital identity at European level, a project that, under the pretext of administrative efficiency, could become a tool for monitoring and control of citizens to which it will certainly abuse, because we have the model of China that conditions access to certain services (eg credits) Social score/rating that includes digital behavior. In this frame, recently The introduced option to choose « X » as a genre on the ID It is not only a symbolic measure, but an additional step towards decoupling the data from the biological, legal and administrative realities. Digital identity is no longer a simple control instrument is already the battlefield between reality and construction, between truth and ideological remodeling, according to the guidelines of the toxic ideologies of the last century, Nazism and communism.

I am not very comfortable with the thought that the honorable European Commission will take these guiding lines and will transpose them into a budget proposal that will most likely come in the summer of this year, because the precedent does not inspire confidence.