IN FOCUS

28/02/2011	The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
13/12/2010	EU Budget 2011 - Parliament votes on new draft budget
22/11/2010	Looking ahead to 2011
27/09/2010	Budget 2011 - the first to be negotiated under the Lisbon Treaty

NEWS

25/01/2012	EU Budget: Giovanni La Via MEP appointed Rapporteur of EU general budget for 2013
13/12/2011	ITER: Declaration by some Member States is provocation. Reimer Böge MEP
13/12/2011	EU Solidarity Fund: €38 million aid for Spain and Italy. Sidonia Jędrzejewska MEP
13/12/2011	EGF: Europe engaged in the fight against unemployment. Barbara Matera MEP
01/12/2011	EU Budget 2012: objective smart growth in times of crisis. Giovanni La Via MEP

POLICY

Budget 2011 - Commission

CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

The Treaty of Lisbon will give the European Parliament the power to fix, as a last resort, the level and the content of the community budget, which represents about €130 billion. Our priority will be to finance the new competences given to the Union by the Treaty of Lisbon, notably in the field of energy, external policies and sustainable development. This will only be possible if we find new own resources for the EU, which do not oblige us to tap into national budgets to finance EU policies anymore. Alain Lamassoure MEP