Strasbourg, 29/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - In its adoption of the report on the 2016 budget, on Wednesday 28 October, the European Parliament recalled that the provisional budget of the Parliament for 2016 was €1.83 billion, a 1.6% increase on the 2015 budget.
According to the rapporteur, Gérard Deprez (ALDE, Belgium), this is an austerity budget. Inflation forecasts stand between 1.3% to 1.6%, meaning that in reality, the EP budget is at the same level as in 2015, he explained. There is...