EU budget: EU budget 2000

EU budget:

EU budget 2000. The Commission has launched the process leading up to adoption of the EU budget for the year 2000. This will be the first budget within a new financial framework that is still being negotiated within the Agenda 2000 framework. In internal policies the process of concentration on employment and growth-oriented spending will continue, with a new emphasis on implementation of the Amsterdam Treaty. The main focus in external spending will be on the launch of pre-accession assistance. The Commission will now go on to prepare the Preliminary Draft Budget on the basis of these orientations, which should be adopted at the end of April 1999.
Source: Press Release (European Commission), IP/99/85 (4.2.99)