EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Foreign affairs

European Parliament regrets lack of coherence in EU funding

Brussels, 18/04/2018 (Agence Europe)

On Wednesday 18 April, the European Parliament carried out a fairly critical examination of the implementation of the nine external financing instruments of the European Union. Over the period 2014-2020, the EU allocated €51.8 billion to its external action, €32 billion of which was channelled via these instruments.

The report by Marietje Schaake (ALDE, Netherlands), which the MEPs adopted by 462 votes to 82 with 151 abstentions, regrets that the quantity and lack of flexibility and...