European Parliament
Raül Romeva i Rueda  (Verts/ALE ),
in writing.
– In favour. In general, we, the Greens/EFA, believe that Parliament should reconsider its traditional approach to always accept the budgeting of the preceding year’s budget surplus as revenue for the current year’s budget, if it is legally feasible.
In this specific case, however, Parliament would be in a difficult position towards the Council, as it made acceptance of DAB 3 conditional on acceptance by the Council of DAB 19. As the Council gave in on DAB 19, Parliament would lose its credibility if it came up with yet another condition. We thus supported the rapporteur’s line.

