Blair's Eu Rebate Cut Branded Unfair and Unacceptable Straw Insists Budget Will Stay Until Subsidies Reformed
The Herald › December 06, 2005
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TONY Blair's hopes of breaking the deadlock over the European Union budget by offering to cut GBP800m a year off Britain's annual GBP2.7bn rebate were dealt a crushing blow last night when France rejected the proposal, saying it did not serve the common good.
Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Commission president, also branded Britain's proposals "unacceptable" and unfair to new Eastern European members.See the full content of this document
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Blair's Eu Rebate Cut Branded Unfair and Unacceptable Straw Insists Budget Will Stay Until Subsidies Reformed
He said the prime minister's slimmed-down budget would make it impossible for Romania and Bulgaria to join the bloc in 2007.
France called on Britain to put "the common interest" of the EU first by ref...See the full content of this document
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