19/04/2010 (Agence Europe) - To complete our article, in our edition of Saturday 17 April, on the 2009 budget surplus, the European Commission adopted, on Friday 16 April, a draft amending budget N°4/2010, including this €2.253 billion surplus in the budget in order to reduce by this same amount the overall contribution of member states to the EU budget for 2010 (see EUROPE 10120). (L.C./transl.rt)