Eurocrat salaries face cuts in next long-term budget

BRUSSELS — Most EU countries support slashing the bloc’s personnel costs to make savings as part of the next long-term budget, the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU wrote in a document seen by POLITICO. The EU’s 27 governments are clashing over the size of the common cashpot, with a group of countries led by Germany calling for several hundred billion euros of cuts to a Commission proposal for a €2 trillion Multiannual Financial Framework for 2028-2034. But a rival camp of countries that includes Italy and Poland supports more spending on agriculture and poorer regions.