Brussels, 14/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's budgets committee, chaired by Alain Lamassoure (EPP, France) has finally agreed to the figures in the new draft EU budget for 2011 without any changes, following its adoption without debate by the EU Council of Ministers on 10 December (see EUROPE 10275), haunted by the threat of “provisional twelfths” but not entirely satisfied about everything it had been calling for.
Addressing plenary on 14 December, the rapporteur on...