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The European Parliament can still veto a deal on the seven-year EU budget (Photo: Images_of_Money)

EU budget: Don't cut the left arm to save the right

EU heads of state and government will congregate for their extraordinary EU summit in Brussels Thursday evening (22 November).

But the biggest losers of the power struggle on the Union's budget for 2014 to 2020 known as the "multi-annual financial framework" (MFF) are already certain: the European citizens.

Promoting the argument of the general spending squeeze, big players in the European Council will almost exclusively focus on cutting EU's allocations aimed at stimulating grow...

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The European Parliament can still veto a deal on the seven-year EU budget (Photo: Images_of_Money)

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