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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
File this under "Well That Didn't Take Long".

By TIM STICKINGS FOR MAILONLINE and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 11:16 GMT, 21 February 2020 | UPDATED: 18:07 GMT, 21 February 2020

EU gripped by budget chaos after Brexit: Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden REFUSE to pay for one trillion euro plan to help poor regions, fight climate change and plug budget black hole left by Britain's departure.

Brussels summit reached a stalemate after talks continued into early Friday
UK's departure last month has left the bloc with a €75billion hole in its budget
'Frugal Four' countries including Netherlands are unwilling to pay more to fill it.

EU leaders were facing budget chaos today at a bruising first summit since Brexit as four wealthy nations refused to fill the gap left by Britain's departure. The 27 leaders reached a stalemate after arguing into the early hours in Brussels, with talks on the trillion-euro budget resuming for a second day today and this afternoon there was still deadlock. The UK's departure has left the bloc with a €75billion (£63billion) hole in its finances over seven years and the budget battle has exposed bitter divisions between EU members.

Germany wants to spend more on climate change while France is seeking more money for a joint defence, with poorer nations determined to keep their generous EU payouts. But the so-called 'frugal four' of Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden are unwilling to pay more to plug the gap.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte, who came prepared for a long-haul summit by carrying a biography of Frederic Chopin, said he did 'not plan to put my signature' to the latest compromise proposal.

EU figures are seeking a figure of 1.08 per cent of the bloc's combined GDP to cover the six years from 2021 to 2027, but the frugal nations are unwilling to go above the current 1 per cent. Meanwhile nations that receive 'cohesion funds' want more still, with authoritarian Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban telling reporters today they want 'at least 1.3 per cent or close to that.'

A frustrated Czech prime minister Andrej Babis said there was 'no point continuing the summit' if the 'Frugal Four' refused to increase their contributions.

'If the group of four rich countries Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Austria insist, we can go straight home,' Babis said today.

The Frugal Four are unwilling to pay more to fill the Brexit gap, while Germany is also wary of a spiralling budget.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8028565/EU-leaders-argue-earl
y-hours-bruising-budget-talks.html

Looks like your next vacation to Europe is gonna be real cheap.

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
The best part of this new post-Brexit reality is watching all these so-called enlightened countries abandoning their liberal policies concerning climate change and muslim immigration. Seems that when the money dries up so does their ideology.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

In retaliation, Erdogan has begun unleashing wave after wave of the first of 4 million durka durkas on the rest of Europe to rape all of the white women.

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I bet you're not going to hear much from Greta Thunberg for a while. They seem to have bigger problems than airplane emissions in the EU right now. Like, namely, maybe they could defend themselves from invaders if they hadn't all voted their gun rights away.

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