The European Commission is keen to change its culture of "entitlement" and "bureaucratic focus" as it prepares to propose new ways to extract money directly from EU taxpayers in an upcoming €1 trillion budget plan.
The internal mood is evident in a six-page-long memo dated January and signed by commission secretary-general Catherine Day, which says: "We must be able to demonstrate that the activities we propose to fund out of the EU budget can be delivered with greater added value by t...
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Already a member? Login hereAndrew 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.
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.