[Lucysgirl]

Each month every EU country pays its dues and after the annual inspection the Commission informs each country an amount is either owes or is owed, negotiations are conducted and a final figure is agreed upon. It's absolutely ridiculous for the EU Commission clerks under the new Commissioner to refer back twenty years to 1995 and re calculate the figures again for every year since, but this time with the inclusion of the "riches" gained from prostitution and the black market!

I'm glad Cameron blew his top and hope he sticks to his guns. I had a similar experience in the 90s when a new tax inspector announced that he'd examined the accounts for every year from when I was in Oak Street and "Chinner" (China) Street in the 1970s and he then quoted an extremely exorbitant sum of 20 years unpaid back tax plus he wanted interest. He didn't get it, what he got was his ears pinned back.