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Saturday, November 24, 2012

The EU summit ends without agreement its


The President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy, said he sees potential for success in early 2013. "We must be in a position to overcome differences of opinion," said the Belgian, who did not specify when to hold another summit. Van Rompuy held thatthere is no reason to dramatize the failure of the meeting, to remember that seven years ago something similar happened at a summit under the Luxembourg presidency. So a compromise was found after a six month break. In the center of the debate on Thursday was British Prime Minister, David Cameron, demanding deep cuts to the proposal from the European Commission , which submitted a budget of about one billion euros, equivalent to about one percent of the domestic product (GDP) of theEuropean Union (EU)Although Van Rompuy made ​​a concession to London with a final proposal, whichenvisaged cuts of 80,000 million euros , with some concessions on agricultural subsidies to please especially Paris, Rome or Madrid, Cameron said the EU was " far from an agreement, "after describing the draft" inadequate ". German Chancellor Angela Merkel, more scissor demanded apply, up to 30,000 million more trimming on the proposal in Brussels, but the trio formed by Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands want a pitdeeper : from 50,000 to 70,000 million euros, according to diplomatic sources reported this afternoon community. After noting the failure of his proposals, Van Rompuy convened a new special summit probably in early February . Since early this morning, many European leaders, including Angela Merkel, warned of the possibility of failure. "It's not a drama," said Merkel, whether to convene another summit to close the budget. The Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, not considered dramatic failure . "It is time", until 2013, said Thursday, said while coming to Brussels to "do battle" in the proper sense of the term. The latest draft of Van Rompuy included improvements to Spain, Italy and France in regional aid and agricultural resources but sacrificed investogación and development (R & D) and infrastructure. In an attempt to appease Rajoy, and l Belgian early this morning offered 2,750 million euros for the Spanish regions will begin to gradually lose EU resources (agricultural and cohesion funds) from the next financial perspectives, including Galicia, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia. However, his proposal to try to please the members of the Northern and Southern and Eastern Europe, it was not enough. Thus, the French president, François Hollande, claimed 6,000 million euros extra for the Common Agricultural Policy, with the support of Spain and Ireland. Finally no proposal was enough for anyone

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