More fuel to the fire for the likes of the Vote UK out of EU campaigners with the headline this morning that Euro MPs confirmed yesterday they want an inflation-busting £5.7billion rise in the EU budget.
The 5.2 per cent increase, at a time when individual European states are having to cut public spending, is more than double the maximum approved by EU leaders earlier this year and would take the budget above £112billion in 2012.
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