Maintaining EU budget crucial to growth objective

The European Parliament is right not to accept a reduced budget because it would harm growth prospects, write Martin Schulz and Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso

For many regions and member states, public investment would be minimised or impossible without the contribution of the EU budget.

ON Thursday and Friday, the European Council will test the EU’s will when it comes to an ambitious budget for 2014 to 2020.