On Thursday 15 April, the European Commission adopted a Draft Amending Budget No. 3/2021, which aims to enter the 2020 budget surplus in the 2021 budget.
The implementation for financial year 2020 shows a surplus of €1.76 billion, which will therefore be entered as revenue in the 2021 budget: surplus revenue of €1.6 billion (including €1 billion in surpluses, balances and adjustments) and €121.3 million in expenditure.
Budgeting the surplus will reduce the total contribution of the...