“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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    21 hours ago

    No, he’s saying that the EU budget should be lowered, and that poorer EU nations should contribute a larger share of the budget.