{"id":1503,"date":"2025-10-14T12:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:13:48","slug":"if-we-dont-prepare-now-well-only-be-passengers-later-debate-in-brussels-on-the-2028-2034-eu-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/if-we-dont-prepare-now-well-only-be-passengers-later-debate-in-brussels-on-the-2028-2034-eu-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"If We Don\u2019t Prepare Now, We\u2019ll Only Be Passengers Later \u2013 Debate in Brussels on the 2028\u20132034 EU Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Csaba Borboly<\/strong>, Vice-President of the Harghita County Council and member of the\u00a0<strong>European Committee of the Regions (CoR)<\/strong>, took the floor at the\u00a0<strong>EPP-CoR Group meeting in Brussels<\/strong>\u00a0during the debate on the\u00a0<strong>Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028\u20132034<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe main guest speaker was\u00a0<strong>Karlo Ressler MEP<\/strong>, EPP Coordinator in the European Parliament\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Budget Committee (BUDG)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Borboly underlined that\u00a0<strong>Europe cannot exist without its regions and municipalities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople experience Europe through local services, schools, hospitals, and community life. If local and regional actors are marginalised in the next budget, Euro-scepticism will only increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He warned that\u00a0<strong>the 2028\u20132034 period will bring fewer available funds<\/strong>, which calls for\u00a0<strong>immediate responsibility and action.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is our duty, especially towards the younger generation \u2013 students, graduates, and young professionals. If we don\u2019t prepare today, by 2030 there will be nothing left to build with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Borboly stressed that the\u00a0<strong>RMDSZ must act now at all levels \u2013 local, county, national, and European.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cToday we can still sit at the government table, plan, and steer decisions. But if we wait until next year, we\u2019ll only be on the trailer \u2013 going wherever others take us. Now is the time to hold the wheel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addressing the balance between\u00a0<strong>nature and people<\/strong>, he noted that\u00a0<strong>biodiversity directives have achieved many positive results<\/strong>, but have also created\u00a0<strong>new local conflicts<\/strong>\u00a0without financial instruments to manage them.<br \/>\nHe called for\u00a0<strong>dedicated European resources<\/strong>, possibly through a\u00a0<strong>revised LIFE Programme<\/strong>, to support regions facing these challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His intervention was\u00a0<strong>well received<\/strong>\u00a0by Karlo Ressler MEP and several EPP colleagues, who agreed that this debate is about\u00a0<strong>shared European responsibility.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe must work now \u2013 in Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, and at home in Sz\u00e9kelyf\u00f6ld,\u201d Borboly concluded.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Br\u00fcsszelb\u0151l \u00e9l\u0151ben: ha most nem k\u00e9sz\u00fcl\u00fcnk, a j\u00f6v\u0151ben m\u00e1r csak sodr\u00f3dni fogunk!\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/96wUCr8Lavo?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Csaba Borboly, Vice-President of the Harghita County Council and member of the\u00a0European Committee of the Regions (CoR), took the floor at the\u00a0EPP-CoR Group meeting in Brussels\u00a0during the debate on the\u00a0Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028\u20132034. The main guest speaker was\u00a0Karlo Ressler MEP, EPP Coordinator in the European Parliament\u2019s\u00a0Budget Committee (BUDG). Borboly underlined that\u00a0Europe cannot exist without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cor.borbolycsaba.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}