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yes. it maybe in the technical detail there is a rise, but it not apparently worthy for even the anti-tory press to make a point on. as above Graudian is saying a £500m saving for us. at the end of the day, the EU's proposed budget rise has been reversed and replaced with a budget cut, an...

no one is reporting this. i can only assume you are refering to changes to net contributions, or changes relative to previous proposed budgets. as far as i recall the stated objective was simply to reduce (or at minimum freeze) the budget. job done.

having read 3, Telegraph mentions "EU officials" with a £500m rise, Graudian has a £500m saving and Beeb doesnt mention. so wheres this spin coming from?

be interested to see where you've found that the budgets been cut but our contributions rise. i can only find a reference to "EU officials calculation" that implies the net benefits drop, not the actual contribution (of course they will if the budgets gone down).

no, this was regular budget planning, for 2014-2020. the EU had originally want an increase of around 10%, which we, Germany, Holland and a few others thought was a bit rich when we are cutting budgets at home. France thinks we can just carry on spending. we won and got a cut in the budget.

a clown? is someone bitter because predictions of failure and marginalisation in EU post-referedum promise, have turned out to be crap? great victory for the UK. shows we aren't alone in wanting reform in Europe, i wouldnt be surprised if the renegotiation is more successful than hoped, with...