Current Affairs EU newcomer states rallying against UK presidency's proposed budget cuts
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose country now holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, faces a frosty reception at meetings in the Estonian and Hungarian capitals this week over his plans to push for lower subsidies to new EU member states like the Czech Republic. Mr Blair's as yet unpublished plan to reduce the overall EU budget for 2007-13 in large part hinges on concentrating cuts on the new member states - the poorest within the union.
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