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EU budget 2014-2020

The EU’s next budget is likely to include the first-ever binding document setting “stronger” and “clearer” objectives for regional funds to support sustainable development.

If 2011 was Europe’s annus horribilis, EU ambassadors hope actions in the making will restore confidence in the 27-nation bloc, reverse the cascade of the sovereign debt crisis that has marred the EU, and ultimately turn 2012 into an annus mirabilis.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius slammed the European Commission yesterday (24 November) for its proposal to help close the Ignalina power station as part of an aid package to decommission nuclear plants in three new EU member countries. 

Negotiations over the Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2014-2020 are likely to spread until at least October next year, paving the way for the full-time president of the European Council to preside the talks and for Herman Van Rompuy to be reconfirmed in his role at the end of his first mandate, next May.

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Opinion & Analysis

The EU budget: lean and green

Connie Hedegaard, Commissioner for Climate Action, European Union

Unleashing the potential of Central and Eastern Europe

Hendrik Bourgeois, Vice-President of European Affairs, General Electric

A Real Budget for Europe ?

Alain Lamassoure, Chairman, European Parliament budgets committee

For a Twenty-First Century European budget

Jan Zahradil, Chairman, European Conservatives & Reformists

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