Agreement on annual spending and beneficiaries. At first glance, the blockage of the 2011 EU budget is strange and rather absurd (see this publication yesterday) because the two branches of the budgetary authority (the Parliament and Council) agree on the annual volume of spending and the destination of this funding, and therefore agree on the essential nature of the entire budget. The difference is down to one of principle and the institutional aspects of orientations for the future. It is...