EU "Shutdown"

Now that the US shutdown is over, it seems to be time to create our own little budget crisis in Europe. The EU Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the European Union (member states) agreed on a budget for 2013 in 2012 under the assumption that all payments due for 2012 would be paid 2012, which just did not happen. Additionally, the member states decided to start reducing the budget, which lead to a budget which was €2.9 billion below the 2012 one. So the 2013 budget needed amending, and since currently everybody in Europe is a big fan of paying in tranches, it was decided to use several installments for the needed sum of €14 billion. Everything went fine with the first and largest one, but now we seem to have a problem.