GUE/NGL MEP Kartika Liotard described how last week's European Council agreement on the EU budget advocates "pumping money into expensive prestige projects like ITER and Galileo at the expense of social budgets that benefit the least well off ".
She was speaking at a special 'Conference of Presidents' meeting which saw European Parliament Group Presidents and MEPs meet European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and Commission President José Manuel Barroso to discuss the multiannual financial framework (MFF) talks.