MEPs have said the European Parliament's budget should be increased by 2.3 percent next year, despite a call for greater restraint from the European Commission.
Members of parliament's budgets committee on Thursday (24 March) voted for the hike to the €1.7 billion a year kitty, arguing that the 2.3 percent figure, below the EU-27's current inflation rate of 2.7 percent, represents a cut in real terms.
In a letter to the heads of all EU institutions in February EU budget commissio...
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