Slash “outrageous” pay and perks, Cameron tells EU as he clashes over Brussels’ budget

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 20:50 EST, 22 November 2012 | James Chapman

[Olog-hai]

David Cameron brandished a list of the “outrageous” pay and perks of tens of thousands of Eurocrats last night as he clashed with EU leaders over British demands for cuts to Brussels’ vast budget.

The Prime Minister insisted tens of billions of pounds could easily be slashed from the EU’s spending plans for the next seven years. He highlighted the Brussels gravy train, a new EU diplomatic service and infrastructure investment as key targets. …

The Commission wants to increase its budget by 350 percent—from £6.5 billion ($10.4 billion) to £29 billion ($46 billion). Britain said that, at most, it should be £13 billion ($20.7 billion). Mr. Cameron said: “Clearly, at a time when we are making difficult decisions at home over public spending, it would be quite wrong for there to be proposals for this increased extra spending in the EU.” …

[Olog-hai]

Original Daily Mail title:

Slash your “outrageous” pay and perks, Cameron tells EU as he clashes with fellow leaders over cuts to Brussels’ budget

If Cameron were on truly high ground here, he would shame these guys. But he is in the same boat, at least at home.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Olog-hai.

The Commission wants to increase its budget by 350 percent -- from £6.5 billion ($10.4 billion) to £29 billion ($46 billion). Britain said that, at most, it should be £13 billion ($20.7 billion).

[Olog-hai]

Austerity, Brussels-style. Slash all your budgets primarily so you can give us more and more, not so you can cut down on your national debts.

[cartan]

The EUSSR wants more money to spend on “economic development”—thousands of useless companies and “Green energy” projects that exist only to mooch off taxpayer money and a nice villa for the CEO. A permanent “stimulus program” that leads to nothing but corruption, misallocation of funds, and increasing poverty everywhere in the EUSSR. These people are pure evil.