The European Parliament reiterated this loud and clear on Wednesday 19 February, on the eve of the European Council on the budget battle: it will not approve a compromise on the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) that would take over the elements of the draft presented by Charles Michel.
The Parliament's negotiating team for the MFF 2021-2027 is not afraid to show its teeth. Johan Van Overtveldt (ECR, Belgium), chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets, told a small...