The European Commission is expected to present a new draft budget for 2019 on 30 November, after the end of the budgetary conciliation procedure (see EUROPE 12141).
European Parliament Budget Committee Chairman Jean Arthuis (ALDE, French) regretted on Wednesday 21 November in Brussels that the Council had been “inflexible” in the negotiations on the EU's 2019 budget.
MEPs of this committee welcomed the efforts of the European Commissioner for the Budget, Günther Oettinger, to find a...