Cameron: EU budget ‘getting out of control’

David Cameron announces his intention to secure a real-terms freeze on the EU budget between 2014 and 2020:

“All around Europe, countries are tightening their belts to deal with their deficits. Europe can’t be immune from that.

“We want to see real budgetary restraint for 2014-20 – the time of the next financial perspective. That is why the text we will publish talks about at least a real-term freeze in the budget for that period.

“This is Britain, France and Germany – the three biggest countries in the EU – standing together united on the need for stopping the EU budget getting out of control.”