Brussels, 21/06/2012 (Agence Europe) - Unlike the Council, the European Parliament budgets committee took a stance, on Thursday 21 June, in favour of using part of the remainder of the 2011 budget to prevent looming budget shortfalls in 2012. The 2011 budget surplus should, logically, reduce member states' contributions to the 2012 budget by as much.
At the initiative of Francesca Balzani (S&D, Italy), the rapporteur on the draft correcting budget No3/2912 (budget surplus 2011), the EP...