The European Commissioner for Budget and Administration is the member of the

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who is responsible for negotiating and managing the EU budget. The current commissioner is Johannes Hahn. The portfolio is primarily responsible for the management of the budget of the

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and related financial issues except for ''budgetary discharge'' which falls under the Admin Commissioner.

The Commissioners

Janusz Lewandowski was the European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget as part of the

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II. His predecessor was

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, who in turn succeeded fellow Lithuanian Dalia Grybauskaitė. The

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adop ...

approved a ''Commissioner for Financial Programming & the Budget'' for the first time in 2004, a position expanded since the Prodi Commission to include ''Financial Programming''. The Commissioner's 121.6 billion

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2008 budget proposed that for the first time, the budget towards

sustainable growth Sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. The d ...

(€57.2 billion) would be higher than that of the

Common Agricultural Policy The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union. It implements a system of agricultural subsidies and other programmes. It was introduced in 1962 and has since then undergone several changes to reduce th ...

(€56.3 billion), traditionally the largest source of expenditure in the EU. There would be an increase in cohesion funds,

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and

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of 14%,

research Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness t ...

by 11% and lifelong learning by 9%. There would also be an increase in the administrative budget, aid to Kosovo and

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

institutions and funds towards the Galileo project.

List of commissioners

References

External links

Commissioner's Website

Commission Budget Website

{{CommissionPortfolios Government budgets Financial Programming and the Budget

The Commissioners

List of commissioners

See also

References

External links