On Thursday 13 January, members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets generally welcomed the proposals for new own resources, but several regretted a certain lack of ambition.
The exchange of views between EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn and MEPs on this committee on the issue of own resources came to an abrupt halt. Due to a poor internet connection from Riyadh (capital of Saudi Arabia), where Commissioner Hahn was, the chair of the Committee on Budgets, Johan Van...