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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10819
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INSTITUTIONAL / (ae) budget

Netherlands opposed to extension of credits requested for 2013

Brussels, 03/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - After the United Kingdom, it's the turn of the Netherlands to protest against the scale of the extension of the €11.2 billion requested of the EU member states by the European Commission with the objective of paying in 2013 the arrears from 2012 (see EUROPE 10816).

The Dutch minister of finance and president of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, stated on Tuesday 2 April, that commitments had been taken in the past while the budget was too small for...