Ms Emily Wigens:

On the specific cuts in the mid-term revision, we do not have that clarity just yet. We anticipate they will impact both geographic and thematic areas but we do not have a sense yet of exactly where they will fall and which programmes will be impacted because that information has not been made public. The way we are able to anticipate and project where we think they will fall is by comparing different budget documents. There has not been a single communication from the institutions that sets out where the cuts will fall. We have to do the analysis of the different budget documents and check where projections from one year may have been down-graded. With the budget lines we can see, we anticipate it will eventually impact the African budget lines but also the budget lines for global challenges, including the global challenges planet line, so that would potentially impact the EU’s involvement in international climate action, which is coincidentally the target within the Global Europe-NDICI instrument that the EU is behind on meeting, so that is quite troubling. However, we do not have the precise details of where those cuts will fall yet.