Representatives of the EU Council and the European Parliament held discussions throughout the night of Friday 15 November, in an attempt to find a compromise on the main elements of the EU budget for 2020 (see EUROPE B12369A5).
The European Commission has presented several compromise texts, all close to its draft budget for 2020 and has asked ECOFIN Council ministers to give the Finnish Presidency a "flexible" mandate to facilitate common ground between the two arms of the budgetary...