login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11322

28 May 2015
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 21
INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) budget
EU institutions agree to reduce outstanding bills

Brussels, 27/05/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 26 May, the Council attended a meeting with the European Parliament and the Commission to discuss the sensitive issue of the outstanding bills in the EU budget.

The Council and Parliament took note of the Commission's forecasts, according to which the backlog of outstanding payment claims for the 2007-2013 cohesion programmes could be reduced to around €2.0 billion by the end of 2016. At the end of 2014, the total amount of unpaid cohesion...