For example, during the negotiation of the framework for the period up until 2013, MEPs had to ght hard with the Member States to secure additional funding for projects which European citizens see as important; projects such as the Erasmus programme, which every year enables over 150 000 students to study at a foreign university, European transport networks and, more generally, research and innovation.
Mar shampla, i rith na gcainteanna ar an gcreat don tréimhse go dtí 2013, b’éigean do na Feisirí troid go dian leis na Ballstáit chun maoiniú breise a fháil le haghaidh tionscadal a mheasann saoránaigh na hEorpa a bheith tábhachtach; tionscadail amhail clár Erasmus, a thugann an deis gach bliain d’os cionn 150 000 mac léinn dul ar chúrsa staidéir in ollscoil ar an gcoigríoch, gréasáin iompair Eorpacha agus, níos ginearálta, taighde agus nuáil.