{"id":555,"date":"2005-06-17T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/17\/111903642654370377\/"},"modified":"2005-06-17T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T20:20:00","slug":"111903642654370377","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/111903642654370377\/","title":{"rendered":"111903642654370377"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><b>The BBC<\/b> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/4102228.stm\">Leaders deadlocked on EU budget<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A deal on the European Union budget looks unlikely after several hours of talks between EU leaders in Brussels failed to bridge differences&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the summit is growing into a bitter feud about what Europe is for and who should decide its future. Sweden has suggested it may be best to put off any budget decision for a year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Friday morning Mr Chirac said it would not be enough to freeze the British rebate and he wanted to see it scrapped altogether.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He also said the rebate should &#8216;under no circumstances be linked to a reform of farm expenditure&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;while some states sympathise with the UK call for agriculture spending reform, none supports the UK&#8217;s rebate remaining in place.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chirac is playing hardball. What a cock. But by the looks of things it&#8217;ll take a little bit more before the rest of Euope gets pissed off with him enough to start backing Blair. Which, considering Blair&#8217;s also a cock, is probably fair enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC &#8211; Leaders deadlocked on EU budget: &#8220;A deal on the European Union budget looks unlikely after several hours of talks between EU leaders in Brussels failed to bridge differences&#8230; &#8220;the summit is growing into a bitter feud about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/111903642654370377\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}