Germany has endorsed the European Commission’s proposal to tie the EU’s next seven-year budget to national reforms and said there is “no basis” for increasing EU countries' contributions to the bloc’s €1.2 trillion cash pot. 

In the next long-term budget, to run from 2028 to 2034, access to a substantial part of that money should be conditional on the achievement of “milestones,” reads a German position paper seen by Euractiv.