EU finance ministers were struggling on Friday 12 November to reach a compromise with the European Parliament over the main elements of the EU’s 2022 budget (see EUROPE B12828A14).
On Friday morning, the European Commission presented a second version of the draft conclusions on next year’s 2022 budget, which has been criticised by several delegations.
In Finland’s opinion, for example, the second compromise “is going in the wrong direction”.
The net contributor countries to the...