MEPs calls on Council for more information and review of "gentlemen's agreement"

MEPs calls on Council for more information and review of "gentlemen's agreement"

(...)Parliament on Wednesday adopted a number of recommendations relating to the management by the Council of Ministers of its budget.

Today's resolution is a follow-up to the EP's decision on 19 May to sign of the Council's budget of 2008.

Among other things, MEPs repeat their demands for more information from the Council and welcome the promise from the Spanish presidency to review the 40 year old "gentlemen's agreement".

Since the Council has become more and more "operational" in its work, particularly in the fields of foreign affairs, security and defence policy, and justice and home affairs, its expenditure ought to be scrutinised in the same way as that of the other EU institutions, MEPs say.(...)