EU budget for 2010 to increase by six percent
November 19th, 2009 - 8:02 am ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Brussels, Nov 19 (DPA) Following tough negotiations, European Union (EU) governments and the European Parliament have agreed on the bloc’s budget for 2010.
A decision was reached to increase expenditure by six percent to 122.9 billion euros (about $183 billion), EU diplomats said Wednesday night in Brussels. The budget must still be approved by parliament in December.
“The budget is a powerful response to the economic crisis,” said Hans Lindblad, Sweden’s state secretary for finance, after the nearly 12-hour-long discussions.
Earlier this month, the bloc’s executive said that the EU economy was heading for a gradual recovery, with its gross domestic product (GDP) set to increase by 0.7 percent next year and by 1.6 percent in 2011.
The European Commission’s more recent estimates marginally lower the projection for 2011 growth, to 1.5 percent.
The rebound, spurred by a massive injection of government money, improvements on the financial markets and an increase in world trade, is set to follow one of the bloc’s worst recessions in decades.
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