The European Parliament’s budgets committee will examine a draft report by Siegfried Mureşan (EPP, Romania) on Tuesday 20 June on the EP’s negotiating mandate for the inter-institutional talks on the EU’s draft budget for 2018 (see EUROPE 11798). The next budget trialogue meeting will be on 13 July, before the Council decides on its negotiating position. The Council hopes agreement will be reached on the 2018 budget before or at the Coreper meeting of 12 July (Coreper is the...