New Cyprus presidency targets deal on long-term EU budget this year

摘要

EU foreign ministers will mull provisional figures for the 2014-2020 budget in September with a view to securing a deal on the spending plans by the end of the year, a key figure in. Cyprus, which took on the rotating six-month EU Presidency on July1,"will work towards an agreement on MFF (multiannual financial framework) by the end of the year," the country's deputy foreign minister Andreas Mavroyian-nis told reporters in Brussels last week. "We will test figures in September so as to have the mainelements to allow us to move forwards by October's [General Affairs] Council meeting," he added.