Portugal will not accept the proposed Community budget presented days ago by the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, yesterday assured António Costa in Parliament, recalling that this is a proposal similar to that presented by the Finnish Presidency and which has already been rejected by the majority of member states.The Prime Minister said yesterday in Parliament at the European Council preparatory debate in Brussels this week that Portugal will not accept the proposal for a multiannual budget of the European Union for 2021-2027 presented by President Charles Michel, however, refusing that the country must assume a priori a stance of rupture in the face of what it called "the four countries forretas" that advocate underfunding and ensuring that the country "will continue to maintain a constructive stance." With the comfort of having received, on the part of all parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic, the agreement that this is in fact a proposal "contrary to the national interest", the Prime Minister brussels for the European Council meeting with the certainty that, as the finnish presidency's draft has already been rejected by the majority of Member States, this is also a proposal that will have the same destination, a which also privileges and gives special focus to cuts in the policy of cohesion and the Common Agricultural Policy.The other certainty with which the Prime Minister leaves for Brussels is that the so-called multiannual financial framework requires unanimity in the European Council and that when the project was approved at the meeting of heads of State and Government of the European Union, the proposal must be followed for approval european parliament.As António Costa explained in the Assembly of the Republic, the four countries it designated as "charters" and which in European slang are be indicated as "fleeting countries", Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands (Netherlands) sweden, which have refused to go beyond a global envelope of 1% of the Gross National Income (GNI) and whose position, if approved, would entail "cuts in cohesion policies and the CAP," supporting the prime minister who countries that advocate underfunding are countries that do not believe in the european project and therefore "do not want to invest in the European Union".

Constructive attitudeStill on Portugal's constructive stance throughout this process, the Prime Minister recalled as an example the fact that the country had "agreed to modernize traditional policies, valuing the development of opposition to incentives for intensive production and the CAP in the context of the combating climate change", but refutes that in any case Portugal may accept that there is an "overall decrease in the amount of cohesion" and reaffirmed that it does not admit that Portugal can be "treated unfairly." The head of the Government recalled the effort that Portugal has made at the level of "negotiation and concertation", giving in this regard the example of meeting which he organised in Beja with the Member States friends of the cohesion, where no overall volume was established in the final declaration, should be 1%, of 1.1% , as the European Commission argues, or 1.3%, as maintains the European Parliament, but only that the "cohesion money should be preserved."