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The free trade agreement with the US will 'force' the EU into more integration, says Schulz (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Schulz: No to EU budget, Yes to free trade with US

The head of the European Parliament has criticised governments for pressuring MEPs into signing off a deal on the EU budget for 2014-2020, but voiced enthusiastic support for free trade talks with the US.

"The so-called compromise on the multi-annual budget negotiated by heads of governments will have no majority in the European Parliament, we will reject it for sure," Martin Schulz said on Monday (25 February) during a debate in Berlin organised by the Atlantic Bridge, a Berlin-based a...

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