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Austria to Pay higher Contributions to EU
Politics ♦
Published: September 20, 2012; 22:56 ♦ (Vindobona)
In the next financial period of the EU from 2014 to 2020, Austria´s contribution will increase substantially. Austria calls for keeping the discount system.
Austria to Pay higher Contributions to EU / Picture: © Vindobona.org
Austria´s net contribution to the EU would increase by € 70m per year if the current discount was abolished. This figure was not confirmed. Austria´s State Secretary of Foreign Affairs Reinhold Lopatka commented that it would not be acceptable that Austria would be treated less favorably.
After a meeting with the Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski, Lopatka stressed that the EU…
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