Ad
Parliament is not happy with the budget (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

Deal on EU budget in doubt

A tentative agreement on the EU's long term budget (2014-2020) has been thrown into doubt less than 12 hours after it was supposedly agreed, as MEPs line up to suggest that the Irish EU presidency has overplayed its hand.

No sooner had Irish deputy prime minister Eamon Gilmore released a statement saying that negotiations had been "concluded" were MEPs rushing to twitter and their press offices to denounce what they saw as an attempt to steamroller them into a deal.

Reimer Boege, ...

Get EU news that matters

Back our independent journalism by becoming a supporting member

Already a member? Login here
Parliament is not happy with the budget (Photo: europarl.europa.eu)

Tags

Ad

Related articles

Ad
Ad