After months of haggling, MEPs scored a last-minute deal last night on the 2022 budget, convincing member states to allocate some extra cash to Horizon Europe, though in the end the increase was far lower than the European Parliament was bidding for.
In a meeting that ended just before midnight on Monday evening, the Parliament and the Council of the EU reached a provisional agreement on the 2022 EU budget which will add a total of €479.1 million for priority areas including health, research and climate action, over and above what the Commission proposed in the draft budget in June
Of the €479.1 million, €100 million goes to Horizon Europe and €35 million to the academic exchange programme Erasmus+.
The agreement was reached minutes before a hard deadline in the budget negotiations, after which the Commission would have been required to submit a new budget proposal.
