The head of the European Parliament has criticised governments for pressuring MEPs into signing off a deal on the EU budget for 2014-2020, but voiced enthusiastic support for free trade talks with the US.
"The so-called compromise on the multi-annual budget negotiated by heads of governments will have no majority in the European Parliament, we will reject it for sure," Martin Schulz said on Monday (25 February) during a debate in Berlin organised by the Atlantic Bridge, a Berlin-based a...
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