Press Release: Commission welcomes adoption of European Parliament report on future EU financing

The European Commission welcomed the vote on 8 June 2005 by the European Parliament on the Financial Framework 2007-13. The Commission held that by approving the report by Reimer Böge MEP, the Parliament had demonstrated a responsible attitude toward the Union's finances. The report was to form the basis of Parliament's position in the coming negotiations on an Inter-Institutional Agreement, held between the EU's three main institutions, to fix the Financial Framework.

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European Parliament: Report on Policy Challenges and Budgetary Means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004/2209(INI)) http://europarl.europa.eu/omk/sipade2?PUBREF=-//EP//NONSGML+REPORT+A6-2005-0153+0+DOC+WORD+V0//EN&L=EN&LEVEL=3&NAV=S&LSTDOC=Y

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