Joint budget
Juncker asks EU states to make up for Brexit shortfall
Budgetary battles one of most politically sensitive tasks facing EU governments after Brexit
Brussels has urged the EU's 27 member states to pay more money into the bloc's joint budget, which is facing a black hole of up to €13 billion after Brexit.
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, is pushing European governments to lift the imposed cap of 1% of the EU's gross national income on the bloc's common budget, calling the cash the equivalent of just "one cup of coffee a day" for the European taxpayer. "I think Europe is worth more than one cup of coffee a day," said Juncker at a conference in Brussels on Monday.
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