The budget cuts for agriculture and the cohesion policy are greater than announced by the European Commission, the rapporteurs of the European Parliament on the multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2020-2027 warned, in Brussels on Wednesday 23 May. They consider that the extra credits announced for research and education have been artificially inflated (see EUROPE 12014).
The battle of figures between Parliament and the Commission has begun. In Strasbourg next week, the European Parliament...