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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9079
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/financial perspectives

30/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - In an interview with the Financial Times on 30 November, Hungary's prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany intervened in the dispute over the EU's budget (see EUROPE 9077 on rumours that the British Presidency wants cuts in the Financial Perspectives 2007-2013 including a 10% cut in regional aid to eastern European countries), warning that if the wealthy west European states were not generous to the poorer east, they faced the prospect of 'the most serious possible conflicts between the different parts of Europe'. 'If there is an unbearable difference between different countries it will prompt large-scale migration and it will jeopardise social stability.' On Thursday, the UK prime minister Tony Blair will be meeting politicians from the Baltic States in Tallinn and from the Visegrad countries (Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) in Budapest on Friday.

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