EU budget commissioner Dalia Grybauskaité will this week launch an EU budget review that for the first time envisages spending more money on growth and employment across the 27-member bloc than on agriculture - traditionally a principal part of the EU budget.
Reviewing the Union's budget was a discussion launched by former UK prime minister Tony Blair, who made the case putting money into more competitive policy areas. But any move to touch farm money - where the spending has been fixed...
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