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Letter

Secret ballot on EU budget can only be initiated by MEPs

The article article by two Swedish national MPs from the Moderate Party about the lowest-ever EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2014-2020, entitled "Secret EU budget vote is unacceptable', is not accurate.

With reference to a possible vote by secret ballot in the European Parliament, let me underline that this must be requested by at least one-fifth of the component Members of Parliament or 151 MEPs, and cannot be initiated th...

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