Blair in Compromise to Break Eu Cash Deadlock

Evening Standard - London › December 01, 2005

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TONY BLAIR today revealed a compromise deal to break the EU's budget deadlock as he put huge pressure on France to slash its farms subsidy.

The Prime Minister made clear he would not give up Britain's Pounds 3 billion-a-year rebate from Brussels without a "fundamental" change in the Common Agricultural Policy.

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Blair in Compromise to Break Eu Cash Deadlock

But in a bid to avoid total failure in his EU presidency, he called for the union...

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