Summit fails to narrow differences over EU’s seven-year budget

EU leaders broke off in the early hours of Friday (21 February) after failing to make significant progress on the bloc’s expenditure for the next seven years. They will reconvene at 10 am this morning to try and make a breakthrough.

Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, speaks to reporters in the European Council. The Netherlands is part of the "Frugal Four", the net contributors against increasing the size of the budget. [Consilium]

Jorge Valero Euractiv Feb 21, 2020 07:31 4 min. read Content type: Euractiv is part of the Trust Project

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