Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control and Committee on Budget said on Monday 16 May that the proposal on the recast of the financial regulation did not go far enough, especially on transparency and public procurement.
Gert Jan Koopman, Director General of DG Budget at the Commission, said that the positions of the European Parliament and the EU Council were contradictory, as the Member States had asked “not to touch the financial regulation, except for what...