sentences:  The European Parliament approved a "Commissioner for Financial Programming & the Budget" for the first time in 2004, a position expanded since the Prodi Commission to include "Financial Programming".The Commissioner's 121.6 billion euro 2008 budget proposed that for the first time, the budget towards sustainable growth (€57.2 billion) would be higher than that of the Common Agricultural Policy (€56.3 billion), traditionally the largest source of expenditure in the EU.There would be an increase in cohesion funds, energy and transport of 14%, research by 11% and lifelong learning by 9%.