PDF While approaching the European Council meeting on 28-29 June, the negotiations about the next MFF caused several headlines in recent weeks:
An informal meeting of the ministers for agriculture and their negotiation about guidelines for the future CAP has been part of the news: EU-Haushalt 2014 bis 2020: Bangen um eine schnelle Einigung (TopAgrarOnline).
A general review about the CAP has been published on the web page utopia.de: Fakten zu Agrarsubventionen aus dem EU-Haushalt (Utopia.de)
The contribution of the member states to the budget has been discussed as well:
Wer füllt die europäischen Kassen? (Handelsblatt.de).
EU-Budget: Österreich will weniger zahlen (Kurier.at).
Streit um EU-Haushalt geht weiter – „Geld besser ausgeben“ (Nordbayern.de).
Finally, the rebate on the UK’s contributions to the budget also made headlines:
EU warned that talks on the UK rebate will be ‘pointless’ (BBC).
