Most of the member states have come out in favour of increasing the post-2020 multiannual financial framework (MFF), the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, announced following the informal summit on the institutional and budgetary future of the EU, on Friday 23 February (see other articles). The introduction of new conditions for the award of European funding is reported to have gone down well also, but subject to conditions.
The President of the European Council,...