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Good morning. It's Tuesday, April 28,

and this is the Brussels Playbook podcast.

The vibe in Brussels today is spendy as the European Parliament is pushing for a bigger EU budget.

Also on the pod, EU capitals aren't impressed with the Commission's age verification app.

And better regulation or fewer rules.

Brussels is looking at how it writes its laws. I'm Zoro Schefterlovic, and with me today again is Nick Vinikor, our chief foreign affairs correspondent. Hey, Nick. You know, we hit a real nerve yesterday

with our comments about shop opening hours. We've had a deluge of people right in to our WhatsApp telling us what they think of us.

Yeah, I had a hunch that would hit a nerve, but let's get back to it.

Yeah, we'll get to those messages at the end of the show.

First up, there's an important vote happening in the European Parliament later today.

It's on the EU's next long-term budget, aka the multi-annual

financial framework, aka the MFF, Nick. Yum. It's tasty, it's delicious, it's billions of euros.

And basically what's happening is MEPs, they're setting out their position for talks with EU countries.

And what they want is for a 10% higher spend than what the European Commission

has proposed for that 2028 to 2034 budget, which is huge because we're talking about a budget

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