Cameron: London will not pay € 2,1 billion to the EU budget, as required by the European Commission

Cameron: London will not pay € 2,1 billion to the EU budget, as required by the European Commission

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Britain intends to challenge the decision in Brussels, said the British prime minister

LONDON, October 27. Britain will not pay € 2,1 billion until December 1 this year to make the EU budget as required by the European Commission (EC). As announced today, British Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking in Parliament, United Kingdom intends to challenge the relevant decision of the EC.

“Britain will not pay € 2 billion until December 1st. We will challenge it (the decision of the European Commission),” – he said.

Earlier, the European Commissioner for Financial Programming and Budget Jacek Dominik said that the European Commission may use the “penal sanctions ” against the UK if she had not paid extra to the EU budget until December 1, € 2,1 Bln. “There can be no question about how to revise the existing (budgetary rules). If we do that, we will open a Pandora’s box, “- said the commissioner, bearing in mind that if the EC to make concessions to the UK, the revision of its contributions may require, and the other 27 EU countries.

The scandal surrounding the additional contributions to the EU budget erupted at the EU summit on 24-25 October. Its reason was the requirement of Brussels to increase contributions to the budget of some countries of the European Union on the basis of changes in the rules of the statistical calculation of the GDP of the European states. The greatest amount of – € 2,1 млрд – The European Commission has demanded from the UK.

Commission substantiate its demand recalculation of GDP in line with the new statistical standards in force in the European Union in October. According to these regulations, the GDP of most EU member states increased by the fact that it encompasses, in particular, the estimated quantities of certain types of shadow economy, including drug trafficking, prostitution and smuggling. In addition, the changed accounting rules of certain types of services and investments. Accordingly, the Commission demanded and increase payments to the EU budget, which are calculated as a percentage of GDP. Additional payments should do, not all countries, for example, France and Germany on the basis of new statistical standards European Commission intends to return the € 1 billion and € 780 million respectively.

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