Negotiations with the European Parliament are going in circles, but despite this, EU leaders said on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 October in Brussels that they did not want to reopen the compromise painstakingly wrung out last July on the EU Economic Recovery Plan and the EU's multiannual financial framework (MFF) for 2021-2027. Technical adjustments can be made to free up additional funds for priority EU programmes, but nothing more, they insisted.
The European Parliament is calling for an...