Premier Matteo Renzi said Italy
was no longer willing to be the European Union's moneybox as he
reiterated his threat to veto the new EU budget if countries
like Hungary do not do their bit to manage the asylum-seeker
crisis.
"Each year Italy gives 20 billion euros to Europe and it
gets back 12," Renzi told Radio Radicale.
"Today there's a wonderful new development. Being as we
are starting to discuss the budget, the Italian premier will
veto any budget that does not contemplate equal obligations and
equal rights. The time when Italy was the piggy bank is over".
He also said that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
calling him "irritable" showed that his budget veto threat had
"made a mark".
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