EU members should not "haggle"
over the union's budget, President Sergio Mattarella said in
Latvia Friday.
"Italy is an active contributor to the Union," he said.
"But I have always refused to consider these relations on the
level of giving and getting, also because the benefits of
integration are almost never wholly convertible into cash," he
said.
"It is not via a bookkeeping calculation that the advantage
that the Union assures all its components can be defined.
"The risk is that of haggling among one another, among our
countries, on the financial relations".
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