David Blackburn

Battling for the budget rebate

A plain speaking man, Janusz Lewandowksi. This week, the EU Budget Commissioner said, not without a clear note of pleasure, that ‘the rebate for Britain has lost its original justification.’

The EU veers between incompetence and arrogance. Baroness Ashton embodies the former, Lewandowski the latter.

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