“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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    It’s more efficient if the member states invest then when the funds get stuck in the bureaucracy of the EU Commission.