In Brussels on Wednesday 27 September, the budget committee of the European Parliament decided to add more than €2 billion in total to the draft 2018 budget presented by the European Commission (see EUROPE 11862).
The MEPs also reversed all cuts to credit lines proposed by the Council in July for various programmes.
The parliamentary committee voted on budgetary amendments (including some 20 compromise amendments) to the Council's position, with the following result: a total envelope of...