INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) budget

Migration crisis - budgets committee approves increase in funding

Brussels, 13/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 12 October, the MEPs of the committee on budgets of the European Parliament approved the draft amending budget (no. 7 for 2015) providing for additional funding (€330.7 million in fresh money, +€70.5 million in redeployed credits) to deal with the refugee crisis.

The Council approved its position on 8 October (see EUROPE 11406) and the two institutions have adopted without modification the draft amending budget proposed by the European...