Brussels, 26/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - Unsurprisingly, the main net contributors to the EU budget (including Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria and Finland) had their scissors out at the General Affairs Council of Monday 26 March, calling for €100 billion to be trimmed from the total envelope proposed by the Commission for the forthcoming multi-annual financial framework 2014-2020. These countries want to freeze the EU's expenditure over this period. In the...