The rhetoric between Brussels and the biggest EU member state intensified over the weekend after the Commission warned that aid to former eastern Germany would be stopped if Berlin got its way on cutting the EU budget.
Referring to calls by Germany to cap the next budget at 1 percent of the EU’s gross national income, Budget Commissioner Michaela Schreyer said there would be "too little money to keep supporting East Germany".
"If we cap EU spending at an average of 1 percent of E...
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