On Thursday 12 July, the negotiating team of the European Parliament lamented the budgetary cuts set out in the Council's position on the draft EU budget for 2019 (see EUROPE 12060).
Parliament's rapporteur on the 2019 budget is reported to have told the budgetary trialogue, which is never conclusive at this stage of the procedure, that these were the biggest cuts made by the member states since 2014 (cut of €1.5 billion in commitment appropriations compared to the European Commission's...