In the small hours of Saturday 18 November, the member states and the European Parliament agreed on the EU budget for 2018, the last one before Brexit. Parliament and the member states had been in disagreement over the figure to be laid down for the commitment and payment appropriations.
The member states consider that the 2018 EU budget should stand at €158.9 billion in commitment appropriations and €144.4 billion in payment appropriations, or an increase of 0.6% and 7.4% on the two...