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Updated: Commission silent as foundation for increased EU budget contributions remains unclear

October 24, 2014

Update 24/10/14 17.05:Outgoing Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has just given his press conference which frankly did not clear much up. Barroso insisted, as the Dutch position below does, that this payment demand is part of an annual adjustmen…

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2014-2020 EU budget, Cameron, EU budget, EU summit, European Council, european system of accounts, gdp, MFF, UK contributions, UK-EU relations

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Why is the UK being asked to pay in more to the EU budget and what can it do about it?

There are a number of headlines today around the EU’s request for a further €2.1bn from the UK in terms of its contribution to the EU’s budget.Below we breakdown exactly how and why this has happened and what options the UK has now.How has this h…

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2014-2020 EU budget, Cameron, EU budget, EU summit, European Council, european system of accounts, gdp, MFF, UK contributions, UK-EU relations

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EU top jobs: will Matteo Renzi and Mrs. Tusk get their way?

August 29, 2014

Herman waves goodbye to the European Council Presidency – who will succeed him?As we laid out in our flash analysis yesterday, the outcome of tomorrow’s EU ‘top jobs’ summit is looking increasingly predictable. Italian Prime Minister Mat…

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EU High Rep, EU summit, EU top jobs, European Council, horse-trading, Mogherini, Renzi, Tusk

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Italy claims "great victory" over "looser" eurozone fiscal rules

June 30, 2014

UPDATE (11:30am) – In a separate interview with Quotidiano Nazionale on Saturday, Mr Del Rio explicitly speaks of a “great victory” for Italy at the EU summit.Here’s the full quote:”The green light to flexibility is the great victory […] One needs to…

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EU fiscal rules, EU summit, EUCO, European Council, eurozone, flexibility, germany, italy, juncker, Merkel, Renzi, Stability and Growth Pact

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What do Wayne Rooney, Rambo and Don Quixote have in common?

June 27, 2014

The script is written and the scene is set: Cameron will go down fighting in his bid to prevent Jean-Claude Juncker from becoming the Commission President with only Viktor Orban for company. While this has earned him some relatively positive headlines …

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britain in europe, British diplomacy, Cameron, EU summit, german media, Jean-Claude Juncker

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Merkel: If you want more Europe, be prepared for EU treaty change

December 18, 2013

Angela Merkel this morning delivered her first Europe remarks at the helm of the new German Grand Coalition. It wasn’t a “Europe speech” per se but rather her usual pre-EU summit briefing in the Bundestag – although it undoubtedly had a bit more …

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banking union, bundestag, Bundesverfassungsgericht, EU summit, EUU treaty change, germany, grosse koalition, Merkel

Berlusconi: Let’s breach EU deficit rules, no-one would throw us out

June 18, 2013

With the next meeting of EU leaders only one week away, Silvio Berlusconi has stepped his anti-austerity rhetoric up by a few notches. He said yesterday,”We need someone from the [Italian] government to go to Brussels and tell those gentlemen, ‘We ar…

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anti-austerity, austerity, berlusconi, EU summit, eurozone, fiscal treaty, germany, italy, Letta, Merkel

As much of a ‘Nein’ as a ‘No’ – Don’t blame Cameron for the break-down in EU budget talks

November 23, 2012

On his Telegraph blog Open Europe’s Mats Persson analyses the breakdown of EU budget talks, see below for the full piece:As predicted, the talks over the EU’s long-term budget have broken down. What does this mean? In truth is, not that much. Postpon…

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2014-2020 MFF, david cameron, EU budget, EU summit, germany, UK rebate, UK-EU relations

Open Europe publishes (and analyses) leaked draft of Van Rompuy’s new EU budget proposal

We’ve got our hands on a leaked copy of the latest HermanVan Rompuy (HvR) proposal for the EU budget (see here for the full doc). The headline spending figure remains broadly unchanged in the new proposal, standing at €1,014bn (a €4bn increase), …

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2014-2020 MFF, budget, CAP, commission, EU budget, EU budget rules, EU summit, Herman Van Rompuy, UK rebate, UK;

The EU budget ‘veto count’: and then there were ten…

November 21, 2012

Here’s an update of Open Europe’s ‘veto count’: ten EU member states (UK, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Portugal, Latvia, The Netherlands, Austria and Romania) have now explicitly threatened to veto the 2014-2020 EU budget. Several other countries a…

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2014-2020 MFF, EU budget, EU summit, France, Herman Van Rompuy, italy, Portugal, Spain

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