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Clock ticking for MFF negotiators

By Jorge Valero | 18 June 2013

Concluding a comprehensive agreement on the EU’s seven-year budget against the backdrop of severe spending cuts and squarely conflicting member state demands is like solving the Rubik’s cube with eyes closed. The 27 member states and the European Parliament made an attempt to wrap up a deal, on...

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Multiannual Financial Framework : Council and MEPs enter into detail - 28/05/2013

European Investment Bank : Commission streamlines objectives of EIB financing - 23/05/2013

General Affairs Council/Budget : MFF: Council frustration with Parliament’s “moving goalposts” tactics - 21/05/2013

EU budget/Multiannual financial framework : Parliament angry at getting taste of own medicine - 16/05/2013

CoR welcomes 2013 budget top-up - 15/05/2013

2013 EU budget : EPP blasts top-up as “unacceptable,” MFF talks in jeopardy - 15/05/2013

Ecofin Council : Ministers’ go-ahead to budget top-up defuses MFF time bomb - 14/05/2013

Ecofin Council : Taxation: Van Rompuy ups pressure on finance ministers - 13/05/2013

Multiannual financial framework : Start of MFF talks puts pressure on Ecofin to top up EU budget - 07/05/2013

7.3 bn euro top-up? - 06/05/2013

2013 EU budget : Member states ready for top-up in two steps, hold back on amount - 03/05/2013

Multiannual financial framework : MFF in limbo as Council and EP talk at cross purposes - 26/04/2013

Multiannual financial framework : EP scorns three-way MFF talks, “trilateral summit” on 6 May - 24/04/2013

Parliament’s MFF contact group to meet on 24 April - 23/04/2013

General Affairs Council : Ministers send positive signal on 2013 budget top-up - 22/04/2013

2012 EU budget: Commission posts one bn euro surplus - 18/04/2013

Election turnover pushes EP admin budget up 3.3% in 2014 - 17/04/2013

2011 discharge : Despite increase in errors, EP okays Commission’s accounts - 17/04/2013

Multiannual financial framework : MFF talks in limbo: EP waits for 2013 EU budget top-up guarantee - 11/04/2013

2013 EU budget : Northern states contest validity of early 11 bn euro top-up request - 09/04/2013

Netherlands shoots down 2013 EU budget top-up request - 03/04/2013

2013 EU budget : Commission asks for 11 bn euro top-up to break MFF deadlock - 27/03/2013

Draft amending budget on 27 March - 26/03/2013

Exec to ask for 11 bn euro - 22/03/2013

Commission likely to present draft 2014 EU budget at end May - 20/03/2013

2013 EU budget : Commission will “probably” present top-up request by end March - 19/03/2013

2011 Commission discharge : MEPs blame lax national control systems for increase in error rate - 19/03/2013

Enlargement : Croatia’s accession: 2013 EU budget adjusted - 18/03/2013

Budgetary guidelines : MEPs ask Commission to ignore MFF deal when drafting 2014 budget - 14/03/2013

Multiannual financial framework : 506 MEPs reject MFF deal without challenging size - 14/03/2013

Tory MEPs lead charge to green-light MFF deal - 12/03/2013

Multiannual financial framework : EPP divided ahead of vote on rejection of MFF in current form - 12/03/2013

Multiannual financial framework : EU leaders embrace ostrich tactics with delayed cohesion payments - 11/03/2013

Multiannual financial framework : Capitals lobby MEPs to green-light MFF - 08/03/2013

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Commission’s 2013 EU budget top-up request before end-April - 01/03/2013

Interview with Alain Lamassoure, European Parliament’s chief MFF negotiator : “If we abdicate our powers, we no longer deserve our name” - 01/03/2013

Interview avec Daniel Zaïdani : « Ce qui va changer, ce sont les moyens donnés à Mayotte » - 15/03/2013

MFF: Parliament ups pressure - 28/02/2013

Development aid : Commission reminds member states of promises made - 27/02/2013

2013 EU budget/MFF : “We cannot poison future with legacy of past” - Lewandowski - 27/02/2013

2012 EU budget : Highest implementation ever hides “abnormal overhang” in 2013 - 27/02/2013

ALDE pledges not to hike MFF - 27/02/2013

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