European Parliament pushes for convention on EU budget

In the hope of winning over sceptical national governments, the European Parliament has proposed setting up an inter-parliamentary assembly to define the EU's spending priorities for the period 2014-2020. Unveiling the proposal Thursday (30 June), MEP Alain Lamassoure (European People's Party; France), who chairs the Parliament's budget committee, likened the initiative to the Convention for the European Constitution, which he said had managed to transform national blockage into European ...

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