The Committee of the Regions is preparing to adopt an opinion that is particularly critical of the European Commission’s proposals for the upcoming multiannual financial framework (MFF), going by a provisional version of the opinion prepared by Nikola Dobroslavić (EPP, Hungary), seen by this newsletter on Monday 10 September.
The rapporteur starts by regretting that the Commission did not propose an increase in the spending caps of 1.3% of GNI. He is opposed to the 10% budget cuts in the...