PM defends EU budget position
David Cameron has defended the collapse of talks aimed at agreeing the EU budget, saying: "We are not going to be tough on budgets at home and sign up to big increases in European spending in Brussels."
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Last night, the EU Commission didn’t commit to saving a single €. That’s why there is no deal and we will continue to negotiate on this.
From @David_Cameron on Twitter:Cameron: EU institutions must adjust to the 'real world'
David Cameron has said that EU institutions must adjust to the "real world" by accepting the sorts of cuts that many of its member states have accepted.
He said: "We are not going to be tough on budgets at home just to come here and sign up to big increases in European spending."
Mr Cameron said he was confident a deal is still "do-able" but insisted it would not be "at any cost".
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Cameron hails progress 'in EU terms'
David Cameron signed off from his press conference saying that although no deal was reached, they stopped something "unacceptable" from happening. "In EU terms, I think that goes down as progress," he added.
Cameron: EU budget deal was 'just not good enough'
David Cameron said today the Brussels summit had broken up without an agreement on the EU budget because the deal on the table was "just not good enough".
He said he had rejected an attempt to commit taxpayers to real-terms increases in EU spending and had protected the British rebate.
He stressed that Britain was not acting as a "lone actor" and that other countries shared its stance.
Merkel: Real potential for EU budget agreement in 2013
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said there is real potential for an agreement on the EU budget at the beginning of 2013.
'Constructive' EU budget talks to recommence next year
The president of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy has confirmed that negotiations on the EU budget will recommence early next year.
He described the discussions as "constructive" and said he believed there was a "sufficient degree of potential convergence" to make an agreement possible.
He said the failure of the present talks to reach agreement should not be "dramatised" and that such negotiations "generally take two goes".
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