EP approves EU budget 2012 with provisions for Cyprus

The extraordinary session of the European Parliament plenary in Brussels approved the EU budget for 2012, and sealed the assistance to the works of the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) and the protection of the island's cultural heritage with three million euros for 2012.

This was made possible by the adoption of an amendment submitted by Cypriot MEP Ioannis Kasoulides, German MEP Reimer Boege and Maltese rapporteur for the missing persons of Cyprus Simon Busuttil.