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Report: UK fears being dragged into EU virus bailouts
By EUobserver
Extending the UK's Brexit transition period beyond 31 December could see the UK forced to pay for EU coronavirus bailouts, a Downing Street source has told Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper. "The EU will be increasing their budget, and bringing in all kinds of packages to deal with the consequences of the Covid-19 crisis," the source said. "Paying into this new budget ... is clearly not in the national interest".