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Multiannual financial framework a political act not an accounting exercise, EESC warns

Brussels, 15/05/2018 (Agence Europe)

On Tuesday 15 May, the members of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) criticised the Commission's lack of ambition over the multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2021-2027, stressing that the MFF was not an accounting exercise, but a political act (see EUROPE 12013). They lamented the announced cuts in funding proposed in the fields of agriculture and the cohesion policy.

At a conference analysing the Commission's proposals on the forthcoming MFF, Stefano Palmieri, chair of the...