The European Parliament has called on member states to agree on the EU budget and start addressing the increasing mountain of unpaid bills for this year.
In a plenary session held in Strasbourg on 25 November, MEPs showed their disappointment with the Council after failing to achieve a deal in the timeframe agreed for the EU budget for 2015.
Eider Gardiazábal Rubial, Spanish MEP for the social-democratic PSD group, told the Council to show the political will needed to address the problem. “Our proposal is easy to understand: we have to pay what we owe,” she said. “We cannot delay payments to citizens, organisations or students”.
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