On the cost to the European Community budget, I do not believe that it is sensible to have a system that costs more.

Will yesterday's decisions mean any increase in the United Kingdom's contribution to the European Community budget?

But she added that Britain made the second-largest financial contribution to the European Community budget, and stationed nearly 70,000 troops, mainly on the Continent.

Different political groups in the European Parliament will always vary as to how best they feel the European Community budget should be spent at any given time.

Médecins du monde added that the European Community budget given to NGOs in Afghanistan was in sharp decline.

Could the Court of Auditors enter into specific agreements with the national courts of auditors so that they perform tasks on behalf of the European Community budget, too?

We have setpiece debates on the European Community budget - we had one in only 90 minutes last week, which worked out at a rate of about half a billion pounds per minute of our debate.

While talking to my sister Anna Maria about the European Community budget yesterday in Rome, she said to me, 'As I see it, you ought to have more funds in your budget.

In June 2006, we launched the Temporary International Mechanism, which channels Member State and European Community Budget resources to contribute to relieve the socio-economic crisis in the Palestinian territories.

In reply to Mrs Lambraki I should say first of all that the European Community budget contains a number of headings under which emergency aid can be given to victims of natural disasters.

LEAD: The European Community Budget Commissioner, Henning Christophersen, said today that the 1989 draft budget would be some 2 billion European Currency Units, or $2.26 billion, less than projections.

At the same time all manner of other estimates are used, for example this one: policies on agriculture and the structural funds together make up 80 % of the European Community budget, and this structural policy is then extrapolated as well.

We all do: the European Community budget, the Member State budgets, the legitimate traders who, after all, pay their taxes, honest operators in the system and insurance companies who have to pay up the guarantees when the transit cannot be shown to have been completed.

It was this Parliament, particularly through the rapporteur, Mr Tillich, which set up the mechanism of obtaining an ECU 150 million package, which the Council was unable to achieve by the wholesale direct cuts it made in the European Communities Budget.

Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the Government will remain firm against raising the present European Community budget ceiling and that they will continue to encourage EC financing arrangements based on supply-side economics, not on the massive transfers of money between one country and another through the Commission?