2011 BUDGET : PARLIAMENT WANTS TO CONCENTRATE ON YOUNG PEOPLE.

The European Parliament will stress, in the 2011 budget negotiations that will open in the coming months, the promotion of young people, innovation and research. It also wishes to launch discussion on its new expenditure resulting from application of the Lisbon Treaty.

This is the gist of two draft reports on budget priorities for 2011, adopted on 4 March in the Budget Committee (BUDG) in Brussels. The first, by Sidonia Elzbieta Jedrzejewska (EPP, Poland), concerns the EU general budget (Commission). For this fifth exercise under the multiannual financial framework 2007-2013, MEPs are calling for emphasis to be placed on the financing of actions for young people but also, more generally, on the transition period between completing education and entering the labour...