Basescu also said the EP Resolution regarding the 2014-2020 multi-annual financial framework is a political act which he deems fair, but which does not target higher budget allocations.
According to Basescu, the European Council meeting mainly focused on the possibility of revising the budget in better times, somewhere in 2014-2015, in the hope of allocating more money.
The president stressed that the EP wants EU funds to be made more flexible.
The EP rejected Wednesday, through a Resolution voted in plenum, the EU’s multi-annual budget version for the 2014-2020 period, which was set following talks between the heads of EU member states at the European Council meeting in February.
Romania is supposed to get a EUR39.7 billion budget allocation for 2014-2020, according to the budget version set by the European Council leaders. Thus, Romania was able to get an 18% higher budget allocation for 2014-2020, compared to the allocation for 2007-2013, although at EU level, the multi-annual budget saw a reduction for the first time.