The EU budget post-2020 should stand at 1.3% of gross national income (GNI) and this amount will only be achieved by introducing new own budgetary resources, if the member states refuse to increase their national contributions, Jan Olbrycht (EPP, Poland) and Isabelle Thomas (S&D, France) argue in their draft report preparing the European Parliament’s position on the forthcoming multi-annual financial framework (MFF), which will be debated for the first time at Parliament’s committee on...