EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Budget

European Parliament triggers hostilities with Council over 2017 budget

Brussels, 26/10/2016 (Agence Europe)

In Strasbourg on Wednesday 26 October, the members of the European Parliament adopted amendments to the 2017 budget with the effect of considerably increasing the credits and overshooting the ceilings (2017) of almost all of the headings of the multiannual financial framework (MFF), much to the displeasure of the Slovak Presidency of the Council (see EUROPE 11650).

This position of the European Parliament is diametrically opposed to that of the Council, which has officially started the...