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EU mulling budget without Britain: FT

19 November 2012, 10:46 CET
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(LONDON) - EU officials are formulating long-term budget plans that exclude Britain due to Prime Minister David Cameron's insistence he will veto any increases in real-term spending, the FT reported on Monday.

Britain is demanding a freeze to EU spending for the period 2014-20, the details of which are supposed to be thrashed out at a two-day summit of EU leaders in Brussels beginning on Thursday.

But EU officials and diplomats are concerned Britain's position will render a 27-nation agreement impossible.

"Because of the British stance people are looking, both in national capitals and in Brussels, for a solution at 26," an official told the Financial Times. "It's being looked at from a financial and legal point of view."

An agreement excluding Britain would raise serious legal questions and could push Britain closer to leaving the union altogether.


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