EU leaders gather in Brussels at the end of the week (4-10 February) for a second attempt to agree the bloc's budget framework for 2014-2020.
At stake is how to spend the around 1 trillion euro over the seven year period with member states having their traditional squabbles over which policy areas - including farm aid, innovation, and regional support - should see the most investment as well as who should get a rebate from the budget.
A summit in November saw no agreement. But th...
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