Making the next EU budget work for gender equality and women’s rights

Transforming the 2028–2034 multiannual financial framework into a driver for a prosperous EU.

This policy brief provides a gender analysis of the European Commission’s proposal for the EU’s next long-term budget, the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for 2028–2034 (European Commission, 2025a). 

It aims to support the actors involved in interinstitutional negotiations with research-based recommendations on how to make gender equality and gender mainstreaming integral to the MFF and its funding instruments.

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