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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8643

12 February 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/financial perspectives
Budget committee's reactions - unable to abandon budget constraints, Commission does not give itself the means to achieve its ambitions

Strasbourg, 11/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - Proposing a budget rising from 1.09% of the gross national income (GNI) of the enlarged EU in 2006 to 1.12% on 2013 (not counting the European Development Fund, which is currently outside the budget), the European Commission has chosen not to needle the Member States which wanted to hand Europe down a very tight budget. In so doing, it has failed to give itself the means to achieve its own ambitions for 2010-2020: to manage enlargement in good...

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