The European Union has defied Britain’s attempts to control its spending by demanding an extra £9.5 billion to tide it over until the end of the year. Members of the European Parliament Photo: AFP By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels 1:13PM… Read More ›
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EU Budget deal struck with £16billion sweeteners
The full extent of £16billion in “sweeteners” paid to European Union member states to secure their support for last month’s decision to make a historic cut in the union’s budget can be revealed for the first time. David Cameron won… Read More ›
56% of Britons would vote to quit EU in referendum, poll finds: ” voters over 55 were the most critical of the EU, with 59% saying it was a bad thing and 20% a good thing”
Results of survey will make sobering reading for leaders of three major parties, as PM prepares for crucial meeting on EU budget Daniel Boffey and Toby Helm The Observer, Saturday 17 November 2012 14.56 EST NIgel Farage’s anti-Brussels Ukip is… Read More ›
Insight: Facing austerity, Europe’s bureaucrats chafe : As EU institutions have cellars stocked with nearly 47,000 bottles of red, white and sparkling wine
By Sebastian Moffett and Claire DavenportPosted 2012/11/18 at 5:21 am EST BRUSSELS, Nov. 18, 2012 (Reuters) — Workers protesting austerity on the streets of southern Europe weren’t to know it, but earlier this month there was also a strike at… Read More ›
Eurocrats demand £8 billion in extra national payments to Brussels budget : While others Cut the EU increases spending at twice the rate of inflation
Eurocrats are to demand £8 billion in extra national payments to the Brussels budget fuelling government anger at the “incontinence” of European Union spending. The European Commission will request increased contributions from national treasuries to plug a black hole in… Read More ›
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