It will be decided within days if between 2007 and 2013 the restricted financial plan proposed by the net payers will come into force or the present payment level remains. Now the 1,24 pc of the GNP of the member countries goes into the treasury in Brussels. The ’big ones’ want a ceiling at 1 pc. The net payers want restrictions because they cover 80 pc of the common budget, and Germany pays 22 pc of the whole EU expenditure, France has 14,5 pc while Great-Britain 12 pc but all the big ones face a serious recession and Germany expects only an increase of 1,5 pc in GDP. According to optimistic estimates Hungary in 2004 will have a surplus income of about 120 million euros next year and between 2004 and 2006 Hungary can compete for more than 3 billion euros for structural development but probably half of this sum will be gained.
(Translated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó)
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Bűnügyi akciót indított a nyomozó főügyészség az Integritási Hatóságnál
