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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10311

9 February 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/budget
EU institutions asked to tighten belts

Brussels, 08/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - European Budget Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski has called on the European institutions, including the European Commission, to reduce their operating costs to fall into line with the austerity measures adopted by member states. He is preparing, in the draft EU budget for 2012 which he will bring forward at the end of April, to propose that the rise in administrative spending for all the EU institutions should be kept “below 1%”. The 2011 budget...

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