{"id":7460,"date":"2018-02-20T12:24:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T12:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7460"},"modified":"2018-02-20T12:24:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T12:24:46","slug":"brexit-challenging-for-eu-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/brexit-challenging-for-eu-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit &#8216;challenging&#8217; for EU budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4324\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Angela-Merke.jpg\" alt=\"Angela Merke\" width=\"404\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Angela-Merke.jpg 404w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Angela-Merke-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/>Net contributor Britain&#8217;s planned departure from the EU leaves the bloc&#8217;s remaining 27 members with a &#8220;very challenging&#8221; budget hole to plug, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday.<br \/>\nPolicymakers will need to find between 12 and 15 billion euros ($15-19 billion) of savings or new cash to make up for Brexit, EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has calculated &#8212; even as the bloc faces new challenges like deepening defence cooperation, securing its borders against illegal migration or beefing up development aid.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Netherlands cannot accept an increase in their gross payments into the EU budget,&#8221; Munich-based newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Monday, citing an internal paper from the Dutch government.<br \/>\nNeither are Sweden, Austria, Finland or Denmark keen on paying more for membership.<br \/>\nInstead, after Brexit &#8220;a smaller EU should mean a smaller budget,&#8221; the Dutch government paper insists.<br \/>\nGermany&#8217;s willingness to contribute more to the EU budget is enshrined in the coalition pact that Merkel&#8217;s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) hammered out this month &#8212; which still has to be approved by the SPD rank and file.<br \/>\nEU heads of state and government will meet Friday to discuss who should succeed Luxembourger Jean-Claude Juncker as the head of the European Commission and how to balance the books once Britain is gone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/brexit-challenging-for-eu-budget\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net contributor Britain&#8217;s planned departure from the EU leaves the bloc&#8217;s remaining 27 members with a &#8220;very challenging&#8221; budget hole to plug, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday. 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