IIRC that hasn't been negotiated at all, merely recomputed. There were things like pensions that were effectively decided on long ago. The 1985 budget said "th

IIRC that hasn't been negotiated at all, merely recomputed. There were things like pensions that were effectively decided on long ago. The 1985 budget said "the salary budget this year will be...; the member countries promise to pay the related pensions later, whatever the sum turns out to be." Ditto other years. Someone's now gone though past budgets and tried to sum up all those non-numbers (both pensions and other future commitments). Must've been a terrible job. (Edit: fixed conflicting use of x.)