2009 budget: Adequate Means For EU Policy Priorities
added: 2008-07-21
The EU must give itself adequate budgetary means to achieve its policy aims - this is the spirit in which Parliament's delegation went to its budgetary conciliation meeting with the Council on 17 July. MEPs propose increasing the payments entered in the preliminary draft budget for 2009. Responding to the plan to fund agricultural aid to developing countries with unspent CAP money, they also demanded that the Commission comply with budgetary rules.
