On Tuesday 20 June, the committee on budgets of the European Parliament approved draft amending budget no. 2/2017, which includes the 2016 surplus, in the amount of €6.405 billion, in the budget. Parliament will take a position in plenary in July.
The MEPs note with great concern the considerable under-spend of €4.889 billion in 2016, even though amending budget no. 4/2016 already reduced the level of payment appropriations by €7.28 billion.
They stress that the very low implementation...