UK DEMANDS EMERGENCY TALKS AFTER £1.7BN EU BILL (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, October 24, 2014, 20:05

EU finance ministers have agreed to emergency talks after British Prime Minister David Cameron challenged a demand from the EU for an extra £1.7 billion by December 1, because the UK economy has done better than other EU members since 1995.

Cameron interrupted a meeting of EU leaders to tell Jose Manuel Barosso, the head of the European Commission, that the demand for extra cash from the UK was unacceptable.

The Prime Minister emphasized that a lot of money was being demanded and that it was not just a problem of dealing with Euroskeptic sections of the British media and public.

The demand from the EU will add about a fifth to the UK’s annual contribution of £8.6 billion (US$13.8 billion).

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