Blair Offers Pounds 800m Sacrifice to Try to Sort Eu Budget

Birmingham Post › December 06, 2005

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The Government last night offered to sacrifice nearly pounds 800 million a year from Britain's annual EU budget rebate as part of a deal to break the deadlock over future euro spending.

Tony Blair is gambling that the offer will be accepted by fellow EU leaders at a crucial summit he is hosting in Brussels next week.

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Blair Offers Pounds 800m Sacrifice to Try to Sort Eu Budget

But the proposals announced by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw also demand sacrifices from other EU members - ...

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