EU’s new financial framework must be sufficiently ambitious – Mattarella

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(ANSA) – ROME, 16 OTT – President Sergio Mattarella said Friday that the EU’s next multi-annual budget, which is currently the subject of tough negotiations between member States, must match the bloc’s ambitions to face the challenges it has in store as he addressed a meeting of the Arraiolos Group in Slovenia. “The negotiations on the EU’s Multi-annual Financial Framework are crucial because the choices we make will define not only the distribution of European resources, but also the level of ambition with which Europe intends to address the transformations currently underway,” Mattarella said. “I hope it will be sufficiently…