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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10326

2 March 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/budget
Criticism of own resources system

Brussels, 01/03/2011 (Agence Europe) - MEPs were heavily critical, on Monday 28 February, of the way the EU is financed and they called for the own resources system to be overhauled. Many of the members of the “special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013” criticised the EU's VAT-based revenue system and several wanted to reduce dependence on contributions in line with countries' GNI (gross national income), which...

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