Budget cuts are difficult pill to swallow, EU leader says

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The European Union’s top official says that planned cuts in the next long-term multi-billion budget of the 27-nation bloc are a “difficult pill to swallow”.

In a speech, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen admitted that the budget deal for the next seven years adopted this week after a four-day EU leaders’s summit features many inadequacies.