EU leaders made no headway on Thursday in fractious talks on a joint 2021-27 bud...
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, whose country is one of four net contributors that want to limit the overall size of the budget to 1.0% of GNI, said he could not sign up to a budget that allocates one-third for “cohesion funds” to develop poorer regions and another third on support for farmers.“I cannot sign up to this proposal. The proposal is simply not good,” Rutte told reporters ahead of the talks.
Diplomats said Berlin is irked that under Michel’s first budget proposal it would end up being considerably worse-off compared with 2014-20, while Paris could see some gains. The Netherlands, Austria, Sweden and Denmark want to limit the budget to 1.00% of GNI. Germany, the biggest contributor, is prepared to accept a bit more, but 1.07% is too high for Berlin.
To help fill the Brexit gap, the Commission has also proposed scrapping rebates on budget contributions that many of the net payers now enjoy. But the net payers refuse to accept an end to the rebates.
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