UK urged to give up rebate

The European budget commissioner has urged the UK to give up its annual rebate worth around 4.6bn euro.

In an interview in the Times on Friday (14 January), Dalia Grybauskaite said, "If other member states started to negotiate just on physical amounts of money, you are forgetting solidarity, a core policy of the European Union. If you have bad times, you have been helped. If you have good times, you help others".

The Lithuanian Commissioner said that unless the UK and other big EU...