In Brussels on Tuesday 18 September, several European ministers took position in favour of a swift agreement on the EU's multiannual financial framework (MFF) for the period 2021-2027, whilst others stressed the problems in reaching a quality compromise on this dossier, which is the subject of differences of opinion, in the space of just a few months (see EUROPE 12094).
It is hard to predict whether an agreement on the forthcoming MFF is possible before the European elections of May 2019, as...