Mario Monti, President of the high-level group on own resources, told an exchange of views at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels on Thursday 6 April that the prospect of the UK leaving the EU would reshuffle the deck regarding the revenue of the EU budget, when everything seemed to be set in stone (see EUROPE 11713).
Monti presented the group's conclusions and recommendations. “If we had proposed to abolish all rebates year ago, you would have said it was a good...