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The battle over the funds, generally known as the multiannual monetary framework (MFF), will likely be “virtually unimaginable,” one EU diplomat, granted anonymity to talk candidly, mentioned.
The position “will likely be one of many hardest on this subsequent European Commission,” the diplomat continued. “But he is the fitting man for the job – he is aware of his stuff, he is aware of the sensitivities, he is properly revered within the European Council and he has the direct ear of Tusk, of which [European Commission Ursula] von der Leyen is properly conscious.”
Marathon summit
In an indication of Poland’s newly influential standing within the EU underneath Tusk, Serafin will likely be central to the funds negotiations for the interval 2028-2034. Last time, the talks culminated in a five-day marathon summit of leaders after greater than two years of back-and-forth between capitals and their representatives in Brussels.
This time round they’re anticipated to be more durable nonetheless.
Serafin will theoretically have a clean slate — however in apply he’ll have to string the needle between the Commission’s trailblazing concepts and a few nationwide capitals’ resistance to alter.
The query, as one former colleague put it, is whether or not being “extra of a technocrat than a politician” assist or hinder him.
