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Diplomats warned that several governments already find a 6.8-percent rise "unacceptable"
Dominique Faget
An euro symbol stands in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, 2008. Negotiations over the European Union budget looked set to turn ugly as a drive to ramp up 2013 funding ran into a push to impose a decade of austerity on Brussels.