CANBERRA — The European Union budget is agreed to by the European Commission, the EU Council, and European Parliament years in advance — with the current framework that began in 2014, concluding next year. The budget supports a range of EU priorities, along with humanitarian and development objectives.
Through the European Commission’s financial transparency system, we can look at how this budget framework has been utilized to support low- and middle-income countries, refugees, humanitarian crises, and more.
The financial transparency system provides access to details of the beneficiaries of funds awarded — or committed — by the commission every year. Data is published against two sources of funding: the European Development Fund and EU budget, which is directly administered by the departments within the commission, by its staff in the EU delegations, or through executive agencies.