On Monday 26 March, the committee on budgetary control (CONT) of the European Parliament voted on the discharge of the EU budget 2016, despite the prior calls of political groups seeking to make this discharge conditional upon clear answers from the European Commission about the express nomination of Martin Selmayr to the position of Secretary General of the Commission (see other article).
“We need to work vigorously to finish the next multiannual financial framework”, said Joachim...