The European Commission adopted on, 15 April, a Draft Amending Budget No 3/2020, which aims to enter the budget surplus from 2019 in the 2020 budget.
The implementation of the financial year 2019 shows a surplus of €3.2 billion, which will therefore be entered as revenue in the 2020 budget (€2.4 billion surplus in revenue and €803 million in expenditure).
€2.5 billion comes from fines imposed in the competition cases and interest for late payment (periodic penalty payments and...