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EU budget talks 'to be more difficult' than Constitution negotiations

Talks over financing the EU's budget from 2007 to 2013 are set to be "more difficult" than agreeing the Constitution, senior diplomatic sources revealed today.

A well placed diplomat from the German mission to the EU said, "the negotiations on the financial perspectives will be harder than the negotiations on the Constitution. In the Constitution, there were no real controversial issues. But when it comes to money, things are different. Wh...

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