EU ministers agree to Macron-backed eurozone budget: minister

Luxembourg (AFP) – EU finance ministers agreed on the broad outlines of a eurozone budget early Friday, France’s finance minister said, a key reform pushed by Paris that was scaled back amid deep resistance by the Netherlands.

“We did tonight what we had set out to do: we’ve created a genuine eurozone budget,” Bruno Le Maire said after more than 12 hours of talks.

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