The budgetary negotiations just got more complicated, with the announcement, on Wednesday 16 November, that Italy will not be lifting its reservation over the mid-term revision of the multi-annual financial framework (MFF) of the EU for 2014-2020 any time soon (see EUROPE 11668).
Meeting for its 'budget' session in Brussels on Wednesday 16 November, the Ecofin Council nevertheless tried to reach a compromise with the European Parliament delegation on the 2017 budget of the EU, at the end of...