Six EU countries called for cutting the EU budget by hundreds of billions of euros

Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden and Finland have written to the European Council calling for hundreds of billions of dollars to be cut in the next EU budget. CNBC reported this.

We are talking about a long-term budget for the period from 2028 to 2034. In a letter to Irish Prime Minister Michel Martin and European Council President António Costa, the leaders of Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Sweden said the proposed amount (around two trillion euros) would need to be reduced by several hundred billion euros.

The signatories of the letter noted that their six countries finance almost 40 percent of all member countries' contributions to the budget.