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EU agrees to budget talks after £1.7bn cash demand on UK

From bbc.co.uk

EU finance finance ministers have agreed to David Cameron's call for emergency talks after the UK was told it must pay an extra £1.7bn. Mr Cameron interrupted a meeting of EU leaders in Brussels to express dismay at the demand for the UK to pay more into the EU's coffers on 1 December. He told Commission boss Jose Manuel Barroso he had no idea of the impact it would have, Downing Street said. It will add about a fifth to the UK's annual net EU contribution of £8.6bn. There has been anger across the political spectrum in the UK at the EU's demand for additional money, which comes just weeks before the vital Rochester ... (full story)

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