04/07/2017 (Agence Europe) – In Strasbourg on Tuesday 4 July, the European Parliament approved draft amending budget no. 2 for 2017, which recycles the 2016 surplus, standing at €6.405 billion (see EUROPE 11812), into the 2017 budget. In its adoption (556 votes to 79 with 61 abstentions) of the report by Jens Geier (S&D, Germany), Parliament calls on member states to take the opportunity offered by this surplus budget to honour “their pledges in relation to the refugee crisis and to...