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The European Parliament adopted today the preliminary estimates of revenue and expenditure for its 2014 financial year – the first phase in the EP budget process. This first set of figures presented in February by the Secretary General of the Parliament, called for a budget of € 1.8 billion (3.47% increase over 2013), in order to finance the one off costs in 2014 of the European Parliament elections and the full accession of Croatia. The EP has already negotiated to cut this increase down by € 5 million, with the full expectation of further decreases in the second phase of the budget after the summer. An amendment tabled by the ALDE group, calling for any final budget increase to be reduced to within a real terms freeze , strictly in line with the inflation rate , was unfortunately rejected in the Plenary vote. This would have guaranteed that a further 25 million euros of savings would be found by the final vote in October this year.

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During the Strasbourg plenary session today the European Parliament approved the budget guidelines for 2014 based on realistic proposals from Anne JENSEN (Venstre, Denmark). 2014 will be the first year of the new multiannual financial fra…

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European Liberals and Democrats have taken an active part in defining the mandate adopted today by the Budget Parliamentary Committee for the trialogue with the Council on the 2013 budget. Insofar as it is a priority to fund competitivene…

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