The European Parliament also brought its influence to bear on the multiannual financial framework, which set the expenditure ceilings in each area of EU policy up until 2013.
Tá guth ag Parlaimint an hEorpa freisin maidir leis an gcreat airgeadais ilbhliantúil, a leagann síos na huasteorainneacha caiteachais i ngach réimse de bheartas an AE don tréimhse go dtí 2013.