“No area can be exempt,” an official in Berlin said ahead of the visit, arguing that net contributor states – those who put more into the Brussels coffers than they get out – already finance roughly three quarters of the EU budget.

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    11 days ago

    He doesn’t need to save money in the first place. His government took on a historic amount of debt to invest in infrastructure and economy to get revenues up… then wasted it all on tax cuts and subsidies for their rich buddies instead to then cry about the need to demolish social systems to save money.