All member countries have accepted the view that the principle of rule of law will be applied in the European Union, and that "must be visible", Tuppurainen said.
CLIMATE GOALS
Analysts have said, however, that if the cohesion funding and the rule of law principle are tied together in the next seven-year budget, the talks about the climate change may become essentially difficult. In the end, it could boil down to a polarization between choosing the climate success or the protection of the rule of law.
Several countries in the eastern part of the EU have so far been opposed to the passing of the joint climate policy of aiming at carbon neutrality in 2050. Their attitudes could possibly change if the economic impact of climate policies would be compensated.
But problems regarding the rule of law, as understood by the majority of the EU, occur in partially the same group of member countries. In such a situation a cutback of EU funding on value grounds would be difficult to combine with the need to compensate economic losses, caused by the cessation of coal mining, for example.
The fiscal plan for 2021-2027 is being developed on the basis of the draft from the European Commission defining the budget as 1.1 percent of the combined GDP of the EU countries.
The previous Finnish government held the opinion that the budget plan was too big, but was prepared to negotiate a minor increase particularly for additional financing of defense and security.
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