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...