In adopting its first-reading of the 2008 EU budget, MEPs want the overall amount of payment appropriations to be higher than in the Commission's preliminary draft budget (0.97%) and the Council's draft budget (0,95%), while not exceeding 0.99% of the EU's gross national income (GNI).
Parlamenta piedāvātais ES budžeta apjoms 2008. gadam ir 124,2 miljardi eiro (maksājumos), kas ir lielāks nekā Eiropas Komisijas, kā arī ES dalībvalstu ministru ieteiktais.