PoliticsGermany news: Merz courts 'frugals' to trim EU budget

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is meeting leaders from several EU net contributor countries in Berlin to build support for a smaller, modernized long-term bloc budget. Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Denmark are pushing to limit spending, with Merz calling for several hundred billion euros to be cut from earlier proposals.

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