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German calls for post-Brexit cuts – for poorer EU states

BAVARIA’S state finance minister called yesterday for cuts to the EU budget to make up for the loss of British contributions, which would hurt Europe’s poorer states.

“We Germans must take care that, after a Brexit, the British payments are not simply transferred to Germany and the other net contributors,” Markus Soede told Die Welt.

Asked how the EU should make up the money, he called for cuts.

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