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Meanwhile in Brussels... EU budget talks end WITHOUT an agreement as Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden REFUSE to pay more to plug the 75bn euro hole left by Brexit and increase spending on climate change
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 05:00 EST, 22 February 2020 | Jemma Carr

Posted on 02/22/2020 10:34:29 AM PST by Olog-hai

The EU’s post-Brexit budget meeting erupted into rows with poorer countries demanding more aid while their “frugal” peers were determined to rein in spending.

Brexit left the EU short of around £62 billion when Britain left the bloc last month.

On Friday — after nearly 30 hours of discussions — the 27 remaining EU countries failed to agree on the overall size of the bloc’s 2021 to 2027 budget or how to spend it.

Speaking after the talks in the EU’s Brussels hub, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: “We have to acknowledge that the differences are too big still to find agreement.” […]

Net payers dubbed the “Frugal Four” — Austria, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands — dug in their heels, demanding that the budget is capped at 1 percent of the bloc’s economic output.

After complex negotiations, the leaders were no closer to a deal than when they first convened on Thursday with a proposal to set the budget at 1.074 percent of the continent’s gross national income, or some €1.09 trillion (around £900 billion). …

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: austria; brexit; climatechange; climatechangehoax; denmark; europe; eussr; germany; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; netherlands; socialmarketeconomy; sweden
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To: Olog-hai
Brexit left the EU short of around £62 billion when Britain left the bloc last month.

Sounds like the UK can afford a £62 tax cut.

21 posted on 02/22/2020 11:51:50 AM PST by seowulf
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To: Olog-hai

Ah, the little climate change boy/girl/it that cried wolf.


22 posted on 02/22/2020 12:10:12 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Olog-hai
Swedish Child-Priestess Greta Thunberg Goes to Davos and Scolds Us All Some More PJ Media ^ | 01/21/2020 | Jim Treacher


23 posted on 02/22/2020 12:12:22 PM PST by Grampa Dave ( May every person dissing Roger Stone, suffer the same nightmare BS justice in a liberal court room.)
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To: Olog-hai

Looks like the grand Pooh Bah’s of the EU are trying to tap “someone else’s money”. Never their own, so sad


24 posted on 02/22/2020 12:15:04 PM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Olog-hai
sooner or later, you run out of other peoples money...
25 posted on 02/22/2020 12:44:49 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Olog-hai

And they had, what, 3 years to figure out how to adjust the budget?


26 posted on 02/22/2020 1:39:20 PM PST by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: bigbob
Sounds like they’re running out of other people’s money

Yes, it does, but they'll probably just double-down and take some more.

27 posted on 02/22/2020 1:41:07 PM PST by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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To: Signalman

“How do you get such a long title to fit in your post.”

The need to truncate titles was fixed a couple of months ago.
Long titles are cool now.
Just copy and paste.


28 posted on 02/22/2020 2:02:58 PM PST by oldvirginian (I know not what course others may take but as for me Give me Liberty or give me death)
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To: Olog-hai

The elitists are getting greedy, the scam should be pulling in more money, theres more to pay out to lie about it


29 posted on 02/22/2020 2:20:35 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip .com)
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To: Gen.Blather

I find it astonishing how proud every German I’ve ever met is about how “efficient” they are with everything. It’s to the point of pathological. Yet think nothing of becoming dependent on Putin for natural gas.

It’s a great example of how powerful the government + media can shape the general opinions of an entire population...and their ‘green solutions’ don’t even result in the claimed benefits, they have no idea either.


30 posted on 02/22/2020 2:24:37 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Olog-hai

I guess I was wrong. Apparently, money is an object.


31 posted on 02/22/2020 4:01:33 PM PST by Rocky
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To: fuzzylogic
I find it astonishing how proud every German I’ve ever met is about how “efficient” they are with everything.

My opinion of German "efficiency" has dropped like a stone after reading blogs from The Scnitzel Republic. Everything from toilets and A/C not working on the trains to idiotic "diesel free" zones in cities. They've come a long way, baby.

32 posted on 02/22/2020 4:55:12 PM PST by Oatka
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To: Olog-hai

Trump’s way of defunding bullies and bad people which destroys or weakens them to being harmless is masterful.


33 posted on 02/22/2020 5:44:28 PM PST by Grampa Dave ( May every person dissing Roger Stone, suffer the same nightmare BS justice in a liberal court room.)
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To: Olog-hai

Holly Molly that a lot of Climate Change in the pockets.


34 posted on 02/22/2020 5:54:39 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Oatka

That’s part of my opinion too - when “efficiency” starts to lower standards of living (things don’t work) then it defeats the purpose. They’re making claims of “success” that are simply not true.


35 posted on 02/23/2020 5:19:42 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Olog-hai

Come on, nuclear would reduce CO2 emissions.


36 posted on 02/23/2020 8:31:49 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Morpheus2009

The left is all about fear. If it isn’t imagined fear about carbon dioxide, it’s imagined fear of ionizing radiation. They don’t embrace new-clear.


37 posted on 02/23/2020 8:38:23 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

38 posted on 02/23/2020 9:17:31 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Olog-hai

‘Climate Change’ is a scam that transfers money and power to corrupt ‘elites’ from the people who work for a living.

If these corrupt assh*les actually believed the crap they put out, they would NOT have homes in Martha’s Vineyard OR every ‘elite’ island and beach community in the world...


39 posted on 02/23/2020 12:46:22 PM PST by GOPJ ( http://www.tinyurl.com/cvirusmap https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm)
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To: cartan; bigbob

Angela can’t - Germany won’t allow her.

What will happen is that

1. The budget will be cut

2. Currently the EU budget is about $174 billion. In comparison the state of Texas’ budget is $120 billion.

3. The countries that are the biggest recipients - Poland, Romania - with the bulk of this going to infrastructure won’t be too happy to take a cut and will push for cuts elsewhere -

4. this means cutting the eu parliament.


40 posted on 02/26/2020 2:34:10 AM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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