David Cameron travels to Brussels later insisting that austerity being enforced around Europe is reflected in the EU's budget.
He will join leaders from all 27 countries at a special summit to set the European Union's spending limits from 2014 to 2020.
It is a complex and deeply divisive process, with the UK balking at the European Commission's opening gambit - to increase the overall spending ceiling to a maximum €1,091,000,000,000.
This was flatly rejected by Britain and nearly all the net contributors to the European Union.
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