“There is no Commission document on this subject, nor for that matter any document from DG Budget”, assured European Commission spokesperson Eric Mamer on Monday 7 October, referring to a European Commission working document on the next Multiannual Financial Framework.
This working document, which apparently emerged from a DG BUDG workshop and which Politico has seen, would confirm the shift from a programme-based budget to a policy-based budget, as announced in the mission letter to...