The British Cheque and the French Cheek
President Jacques Chirac yesterday dragged the rebate - known in France as “the British cheque” - into the French debate on the EU constitution.
Mr Chirac emerged from a summit with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany and President Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland to urge the French public to vote “yes” and to vow that all three countries had agreed to “demand rediscussion and renegotiation of the British cheque”.
Without the rebate, Britain would have paid 14 times as much into EU funds as France or Italy since 1984. As it is, Britain still pays more than two and a half times as much as France.
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