On Thursday 1 July, the MEPs on the European Parliament’s Committees on Budgets (BUDG) and Budgetary Control (CONT) said that future guidelines for the application of the general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget were unnecessary and even counterproductive.
The committees adopted (by 53 votes in favour, 11 against and 2 abstentions) a report by Eider Gardiazabal Rubial (S&D, Spain) and Petri Sarvamaa (EPP, Finland) on the need for guidelines on this text,...