Outgoing president of the EU Jean-Claude Juncker launched a blistering attack on the British prime minister laying the blame squarely at Tony Blair’s door for last week’s summit failure.
In an hour-long account to MEPs on Wednesday (22 June), Mr Juncker accused Mr Blair of using false arguments about the scale of farming subsidies and being misleading about the presidency’s proposals to try and forge a deal.
The Luxembourg leader said he had not tried to scrap the annual British r...
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