The European Commission's plan to recruit 250 new staff from Romania and Bulgaria next year looks safe after MEPs and member states dropped Finnish EU presidency plans to slash the commission's 2007 budget by €56 million - but the budget wrangle is far from over with foreign policy spending still causing strife.
The staff-cut plans were ditched during acrimonious 12 hour-long talks between Finnish diplomats and the European Parliament which ended at 22:00 local time in Brussels on Tuesd...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.