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Highlights - EU budget 2018: Plenary debate and vote on outcome of the budgetary conciliation - Committee on Budgets 04-12-2017 11:58 AM CET In the early hours of 18 November, Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on the 2018 Union budget during a conciliation procedure. The preliminary figures are EUR 160.1 billion in commitment appropriations and EUR 144.7 billion in payment appropriations. Parliament secured increases for the Youth Employment Initiative (+EUR 116.7 million), programmes key to boosting growth and jobs, such as Erasmus+ (+EUR 24 million), Horizon 2020 (research, +EUR 110 million) and COSME (support for SMEs, +EUR 15 million), as well as for agencies with security-related tasks (Europol, Eurojust and EASO) and the EU's external action (+EUR 80 million), including the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods and the Western Balkans. At the plenary sittings of 29 and 30 November, Members took a close look at the terms of the agreement. The debate, on Wednesday 29 November (afternoon), was followed by the plenary vote on Thursday 30 November. A majority of Parliament approved the joint text. Further information 2018 budgetary procedure Steps of the procedure Plenary agenda Press release (18 November) Top Story: The EU's budget for 2018 Conciliation document/ Joint text Extracts from the debate, vote and signature on the report Source : © European Union, 2017 - EP QUESTIONS? STAY CONNECTED  Contact Us | This email was sent on behalf of the European Parliament · Bât. Altiero Spinelli · 60 rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60 · B-1047 - Bruxelles/Brussels  · Belgium · Phone: +32(0)2 28 42111