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» Monday, June 7, 2010

Prime Minister’s meeting with President of the European Council

Asked what the Prime Minister and Herman Van Rompuy talked about at their meeting, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that it was essentially a meeting to go through the issues that would come up at the European Council.

Put that there had been a suggestion that the Prime Minister could be asked to reveal the Budget at the European Council, the PMS said that the Budget would be announced to Parliament.

Put that there had been a suggestion that the EU wanted advance knowledge of how governments were running things due to what had happened in Greece, the PMS said that he was not aware of any representations from the EU regarding this, but it was a long-established practice that we announced the Budget to Parliament and that would continue to be the practice.

Put that there had been a suggestion that Britain would be asked for extra money in regards to helping the situation with the Euro, the PMS said that today’s meeting would not have been the forum for that type of discussion. The Chancellor was clear about this issue when he attended his first Ecofin meeting. Today’s meeting was about the European Council, which was in just over a week’s time.

Asked what would be on the agenda at the European Council, the PMS said that there would be a focus on the Eurozone economy, growth and climate change.

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