Here goes our master statesman, I wonder how he will sell us the fact that he'll give up the 'rebate' ? .... I bet he is up to something here ... Some sort of deal which will leave him looking like the Euroland saviour .. and us picking up the old tab !!TONY BLAIR is facing a Franco-German ambush this week over Britain's £3 billion annual European Union budget rebate after signalling his determination to kill off the European constitution.
At a meeting in Berlin last night, Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, and French President Jacques Chirac were insistent Britain should give up the deal won by Margaret Thatcher two decades ago.
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