The European Parliament adopted today in Brussels the budget for 2012, which envisages expenditure restrictions due to the debt crisis. The European finance ministers approved the budget at yesterday's meeting. adoption of this restrictive budget, while the Greens assessed that the budget is unbalanced and insufficient for the EU. The final agreement represents, as France Press assesses, a defeat for the European deputies since they asked for the budget to be 133,1 billion, and it will be 129,1 billion euros. The EU budget for 2012 will be 1,86 percent higher than this year's, which means that the increase will be less than the annual inflation, which, according to the European Commission's estimate, will be around two percent.
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