Brussels, 15/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - With its adoption (by 577 votes to 66 against, with 14 abstentions) of the report by Eider Gardiazabal Rubial (S&D, Spain) (see EUROPE 11409), the European Parliament voted in Brussels on Wednesday 14 October to approve draft amending budget No7/2015 providing additional funding this year to manage the refugee crisis.
An additional sum of €401.3 million (including €330.7 million in new money) was allocated to the EU countries hardest hit by the...