GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/barroso commission/budget

Ms Grybauskaité recognises that proposals on new financial framework have to be adapted and system of British cheque will have to go - CAP is "old-fashioned and outmoded"

Brussels, 29/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Commissioner-designate for the budget and financial programming, Dalia Grybauskaité (Lithuania) gave a brilliant performance at her hearing in front of MEPs from the budget parliamentary committee on Tuesday evening in Brussels. She recognised that in order to obtain a final an acceptable compromise for everyone, the Prodi Commission proposals on the next financial perspectives will have to be modified and perhaps improved. She said that...