EU leaders fail to reach deal on budget as summit breaks up
Differences were"still too great to reach an agreement," German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters at the end of the two days of talks in Brussels.
No date had yet been set for another summit to try again, but Merkel added that "we are going to have to return to the subject". He said, however, he was right to make the effort: "As my grandmother said, to succeed you first have to try."European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is counting on a big enough budget to meet her executive's "geopolitical" ambitions, said the EU discord was sign of "democracy".
"We ended up in a situation of group versus group. That's why it failed," a source close to the negotiations told AFP.Merkel is determined to retain a budget rebate her country has received ever since Britain wrangled one for itself while a member.
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