INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) budget

Budgets committee calls for serious mid-term “revision” of MFF

Brussels, 18/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - The draft report on the mid-term revision of the multi-annual financial framework of the EU (MFF) for 2014-2020 will be presented at the meeting of the budgets committee of the European Parliament on 25 April.

This was announced on Thursday 18 March by the chair of this committee, Jean Arthuis (ALDE, France), at a hearing on the mid-term revision of the MFF at the budgets committee. He described the MFF as a “straitjacket” when crises occur. The...