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Hundreds of businesses of different nationalities, sizes and sectors recommend that a quarter of the EU budget should be spent on competitiveness actions, thus more than doubling the current level. Overall, the entrepreneurs, gathered in Brussels in the context of the European Parliament of Enterprises*, think that the ‘sustainable growth’ heading should receive half of the budget, with the ‘cohesion’ heading reduced by over a quarter. Entrepreneurs would also half the ‘CAP-market-related expenditure and direct payments’ sub-heading, bringing the whole ‘Preservation and management of natural resources’ heading to less than 30% of the total budget. In addition, businesses call for an eight-fold increase of EU resources devoted to the ‘citizenship, freedom, security and justice’ heading ...
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