17/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - Enlargement Commissioner, Günter Verheugen, has defended the position expressed this week in a letter by six "net contributor" counties to the EU budget sent to Romano Prodi, who want EU spending for 2007-13 to be set beneath 1% of GDP. "We cannot asked Member States to consolidate their national budgets and at the same time request that they pay billions more to the EU budget"", stated Mr Verheugen to Deutschlandfunk. President Prodi has severely criticised...