“Demand is strong”, Johan Van Overtveldt (ECR, Belgian) told Agence Europe after being re-elected Chair of the European Parliament’s 40-member Committee on Budgets (BUDG) on Tuesday 23 July. For Agence Europe, the MEP went on to outline the Committee’s priorities: “Ukraine, defence, cohesion and agriculture”.
“200 billion a year for Europe is simultaneously not a lot and a lot”, said the man who can attest to the “busy” nature of budget-related issues in recent...