The EU General Affairs Council stressed on Tuesday 8 January in Brussels the need to continue negotiations on the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) at a good pace in order to prepare a political agreement on this sensitive issue in autumn 2019.
This Council will return each month to this issue in an attempt to make progress before the European elections in May (see EUROPE 12161).
The Romanian Presidency of the Council has been “very ambitious” on the negotiations to...