Britain not isolated over EU budget cuts: Cameron

(BRUSSELS) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday that he was not isolated in his demands for cuts to the EU budget, insisting that a group of other northern European countries backed his position.

"This was not Britain as some sort of lone actor," Cameron told a press conference after the two-day summit ended with no deal on the seven-year spending plan.

"The deal on the table was just not good enough," he said. "It was not good enough for Britain and neither was it good enough for Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, Finland and Denmark."

Cameron had threatened to use Britain's veto if his demands for cuts to the trillion euro budget, particularly by slashing the perks of EU bureaucrats, were not met.

But having angered many in Europe by using the veto in December last year on a fiscal pact to end the eurozone crisis, this time around he engaged in frantic diplomacy ahead of the summit.

He met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on Friday morning.