EU Financial Framework Negotiations Enter the Hot Phase

People ♦ Published: March 27, 2012; 13:22 ♦ (Vindobona)

State Secretary Wolfgang Waldner underlines Austria´s position as net contributor at the General Affairs Council in Brussels.

EU Financial Framework Negotiations Enter the Hot Phase / Picture: © Wikipedia / Tsui

“We are currently negotiating one of the most important EU matters by far: the entire EU budget and the content orientation of the EU programmes for the period 2014 – 2020. After first months of sounding out the positions on the “multiannual EU financial framework”, we have now entered the next, intensive phase of the negotiations”, the Austrian State Secretary reports from…