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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10286
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi

Financial perspectives: for a European debate without accounting restraint

Contributors and beneficiaries. It's obvious: the five member states that called for Community spending stability for the next few years are “net contributors” to the EU budget. Those that provided the most robust response are the main beneficiaries of the most expensive European policy, cohesion policy. They are also the countries most affected by perspectives relating to the common agricultural policy (CAP) or the greatest beneficiaries of this policy. The majority of countries in the...