What I wrote about the work underway on the “financial perspectives” 2007-2013 (bulletin 9818) was preliminary in nature, I put the debate into context, leaving aside a couple of essential points: a) dealings in progress between the Member States (which have something of a whiff of pre-negotiations about them); b) the work of the European Parliament, whose influence will be considerable.
The Member States get ready. The main reason behind the stances of the Member States is to allow...