Strasbourg, 21/05/2008 (Agence Europe) - Voting on Tuesday 20 May on the provisional state of income and spending for the budgetary year 2009, the European Parliament endorsed the rapporteur of the committee on budgets Janusz Lewandowski (Poland, EPP/ED) by a large majority (556 votes in favour, 40 against and 61 abstentions).
In its resolution, the Parliament recalls that the 2009 budget should respond to a number of major challenges laid out in the resolution of 10 April 2008 (see EUROPE...