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off-budget

[ awf-buhj-it, of- ]

adjective

, U.S. Government.
  1. not included in the regular federal budget; funded through separate agencies.


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The EU budget can’t be used to buy arms, under current expert interpretations of the bloc’s treaties, but the special fund — known as the European Peace Facility — runs off-budget and doesn’t have to respect the same legal standards or be approved by the European Parliament.

Since then, further crises have piled up, forcing it to resort ever more to off-budget funds, even as debt has become more expensive with interest rates rising.

From Reuters

Others have proposed solutions that do not involve touching the brake, such as creating a new off-budget fund written into the constitution, like the special fund to upgrade the military established after Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year, to focus on investment.

From Reuters

The increase would be 8% when including an additional $1.3 billion in new proposed spending through off-budget accounts.

The EPF, created in 2021, is an off-budget instrument aimed at enhancing the EU's ability to prevent conflicts, build peace and strengthen international security.

From Reuters

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