Strasbourg, 13/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - By a robust majority, MEPs have rejected the draft EU budget for 2014-2020 in the form negotiated by EU heads of state last month. This gesture of rejection is mitigated, however, by the fact that MEPs are not calling for the actual amounts to be renegotiated, but the European Parliament (EP) resolution gives a strong negotiating mandate to get the budget supplemented by national guarantees to avoid the EU running a deficit.
By a landslide 506...