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The meeting of the Ministerial Committee on European Union Affairs on Wednesday 14 May featured Finland's pre-Influencing on the EU's future financial framework, a meeting of the European Political Community, the prevention of illegal immigration and a proposal for new sanctions against Russia.

The Ministerial Committee on European Union Affairs supplemented the positions on ex ante Influencing on the EU's next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). The Commission is expected to publish its proposal in July. The Ministerial Committee on European Union Affairs outlined Finland's support for simplifying the structure of the financial framework, increasing its flexibility, strengthening its performance-based approach and, at the very least, for conditionality of the current kind. The Ministerial Committee clarified sectoral positions in areas such as agricultural policy, competitiveness, cohesion policy, support for Ukraine, defence and overall security, transport financing and border management. Pre-emptively influencing the Commission's financial framework proposal is one of the government's EU policy priorities in 2025.