Brussels, 20/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 20 January, the European Commission adopted a draft amending budget (2/2015) to transfer €21 billion in unused credit appropriations from 2014 into the budgets for 2015-2017.
These are shared management funds (rural development, cohesion policy, etc). In this case, it is the member states rather than the services of the Commission which select the beneficiaries and manage the expenditure.
The Commission explains that this “one-off”...