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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8782
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/budget

Gerrit Zalm says British insistence over rebate is not sustainable

Brussels, 09/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - Before welcoming his European counterparts to the resort of Scheveningen on Friday and Saturday (see EUROPE of 8 September, p.7), Dutch Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm warned Gordon Brown's insistence that the British rebate was "not negotiable" was not sustainable. In an interview with The Financial Times of Thursday, he says that "even in Britain, people can understand if countries are in the same position but get different treatment. That is something...

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