UK taxpayers face extra £700m bill as EU swells budget

Defying Prime Minister David Cameron's repeated calls for austerity in EU spending, the European Commission will today issue a request for an extra £5.5bn (4.9%) for next year, swelling the Brussels budget to £117bn. Britain's proposed £682m increase in contribution for 2012 means UK taxpayers will be paying more than £10bn to the EU at a time when the British government is making cuts, The Telegraph writes. The government is under pressure to cut soaring British contributions to the EU budget after the publication of official figures last month. These showed British taxpayers paid...