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French President Francois Hollande said Friday that Germany "did not want to isolate Britain" during tough summit talks that failed to agree a seven-year budget for the European Union.
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Merkel needs to grow a pair and get on the side of Britain then maybe their could be some chance of saving this situation from going completly down the pan.
The way I see it is if we have to cut our costs at home then Brussels definitly has to follow suit,and they should start by cutting all the dishonesty fire anyone caught with their finger in the till, NO WAIT then there would be nobody in the E.U.Parliment
"I too could say that I want my discount," he said adding that Britain was a smaller net contributor to the EU budget than France.
I guess UK is becoming a problem child now, they don't contribute anything and wish for everything.....loosers!
£53 million PER DAY actually for mass immigration. BTW, there's only 1 o in losers.
Germany and the UK are the biggest net contibutors to the EU - fact.
@nstaubach you really have no clue whatsoever.
How about working longer and only being in one place not two?
If they cut the waste there would be enough money to cut the contributions.
@nstaubach = knob.