Brussels, 04/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament should vote to restrict its own budget in 2012, reflecting austerity in EU member states, said the EP's budgets committee on Thursday 3 March, as it voted on guidelines for the 2012 budget. The EP budget should now enter a post-Lisbon Treaty consolidation phase, with no increase in 2012 beyond inflation, it added.
“We believe that the budget for 2012 must be neutral, that is to say, we must not exceed inflation... We would...