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Il 18 novembre i negoziatori del Parlamento europeo e del Consiglio hanno raggiunto un accordo provvisorio sul bilancio dell'UE per il 2018. Il progetto comune, che prevede impegni totali pari a 160,11 miliardi di EUR e pagamenti totali pari a 144,68 miliardi di EUR, dovrebbe essere adottato dal Consiglio e poi votato dal Parlamento durante la tornata di novembre II.

Durante la plenaria di ottobre II, il Parlamento dovrà decidere se e come modificare la posizione del Consiglio sul progetto di bilancio dell'UE per il 2018 presentato dalla Commissione. La relazione approvata dalla commissione per i bilanci annulla tutti i tagli proposti dal Consiglio. Inoltre, aumenta gli stanziamenti per una serie di programmi prioritari del Parlamento connessi alla crescita sostenibile, all'occupazione, in particolare quella giovanile, alla sicurezza e ai cambiamenti climatici ...

This briefing has been prepared in view of the European Parliamentary Week’s Interparliamentary committee meeting on 16 February organised by the Committee on Budgets (BUDG): EU and national expectations, and how to increase the democratic accountability of the next MFF negotiations. The note gives background information on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and presents the state of play of the preparations in the European Parliament’s (EP) Committee on Budgets and the planned actions for ...

The paper assesses the first two years of Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), taking into account its initial backloading in 2014-2015 as per 2013 agreement on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2014-2020, as well as the evolution and the new priorities since the MFF agreement. It provides key information on the CEF, summarises the programme’s performance to date, discusses the budget cuts, and presents conclusions on the basis of the assessment.

On 27 and 28 October 2015, a crucial step takes place in the annual budgetary procedure, with the European Parliament (EP) due to decide whether and how to amend the Council's position on the 2016 draft EU budget put forward by the European Commission. Please click here for the full publication in PDF format

Draft amending budget No 2 to the general budget 2015 accompanies the revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework for the years 2014-2020 (MFF) under Article 19 of Council Regulation No 1311/2013 (the MFF Regulation). The Parliament voted to consent to this revision on 15 April. As a consequence of the late agreement on the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the various legal acts setting out the provisions for implementing the funds were adopted much later than planned, resulting ...

Under the Treaty of Lisbon, the procedure to adopt the EU's annual budget provides for a single reading and specific deadlines for each of the key institutional actors involved in it: the European Parliament (EP), the Council and the Commission. This year's budgetary procedure has seen difficult negotiations between the EP and the Council, the two arms of the budgetary authority, in relation not only to the 2015 budget but also to amendments to the 2014 budget. A major stumbling block was the growing ...