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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11494

20 February 2016
INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) budget
Migration will have major impact on 2017 budget, say MEPs

Brussels, 19/02/2016 (Agence Europe) - The migrant and refugee crisis will continue to weigh heavily on the EU budget for 2017, the MEPs of the committee on budgets of the European Parliament reiterated in their adoption (25 votes in favour, six against and four abstentions) of the report by Jens Geier (S&D, Germany) on the general guidelines for the preparations for the 2017 budget.

The budgets committee states that the European economic forecasts (autumn 2015) published by the Commission...