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Lisbon Treaty could serve as framework for EU budget reform, suggests Commissioner Dalia Grybauskaité

Brussels, 30/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - Dalia Grybauskaité, the Commissioner for the Budget, suggested on Tuesday 29 January that the Lisbon Treaty, once ratified, could serve as a framework for reform of the EU budget between 2008 and 2010 and in setting the new spending priorities.

Speaking in front of MEPs in the Visegrad+ Forum, the Commissioner said that the Lisbon Treaty “suggests” five future broad political priorities for the EU budget: - security, freedom and justice (now at...