Strasbourg, 14/12/2006 (Agence Europe) - Thanks to the hard-won agreement with the two other institutions (European Commission and Council of Ministers), on 14 December, the European Parliament gave second reading approval to the EU budget for next year. Compared with the 2006 budget, there is a 5% increase in commitment appropriations and a 7.6% increase in credit appropriations, and it allows the Commission to recruit the 801 new officials (of whom 250 Romanian and Bulgarian nationals) it...