Late in the afternoon on Wednesday 7 December, Italy said that it was maintaining its reservation over the agreement being sketched out at the Council of the EU on the mid-term revision of the multi-annual financial framework (MFF) of the EU for 2014-2020 (see EUROPE 11669).
At the meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the member states to the EU (Coreper) on Wednesday, the Slovak Presidency of the Council reiterated that there was broad support in favour of its latest...