Ted Obvious writes from Brussels in reaction to another absolutely pointless European Union summit, these types of gathering cost a lot of money and they are more trouble than they are actually worth. There are many keynote speakers in Europe to talk to about European policies and help finding more about what goes where in between who likes who.
The EU budget is coming next year and from that everything will be squeezed out of Europe here are the two sides of the coin.
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- Eastern Europe and in Paris want it increased substantially,
- countries like Germany and Britain, want it the budget frozen.
Patriotic games at the EU summit by British Prime Minister David Cameron with the referendum debate and the EU membership.
Four things about the budget you should probably know about:
- The EU is a black hole
- The EU budget is shrinking
- The EU got it wrong about the debt crisis
- The EU project is showing more cracks in the surface than Mars or the moon.
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