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Lewandowski: 'We need to find a way out of this' (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

Commission breaks taboo on 'own resources'

by Andrew Willis, Brussels,

The European Commission has proposed a list of potential methods to enable the EU to raise its 'own resources' in future, citing the need to end current wrangling over member state contributions to the Brussels budget.

A separate EU-wide value added tax (VAT) is among the ideas contained in the commission's "budget review" published on Tuesday (19 October), a document which stems from a Franco-British spat in December 2005 over EU payments.

Other self-funding mechanisms could in...

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Lewandowski: 'We need to find a way out of this' (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

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