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 Piotr Serafin. The portfolio is primarily responsible for the management of the budget of the European Union 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

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approved a ''Commissioner for Financial Programming & the Budget'' for the first time in 2004, a position expanded since the

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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

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

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(€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%,

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

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institutions and funds towards the Galileo project.

List of commissioners

References

External links

Commissioner's Website

Commission Budget Website

{{CommissionPortfolios Budget of the European Union Financial Programming and the Budget

The Commissioners

List of commissioners

See also

References

External links