http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005100324,00.html

By NIC CECIL
Political Correspondent

BRITAIN has paid £100BILLION to Brussels over 18 years, MPs revealed last
night.

A staggering £37billion of that was paid to other EU states or swallowed up
by European Commission bureaucracy or projects.

Eurocrats returned £63billion to the UK between 1986 and 2003 through costly
schemes - many of them "corrupt, flawed or wasteful".

Billions were given to UK farmers through the Common Agricultural Policy.

Shadow Europe Minister Graham Brady said: "A great deal of this money could
have been spent better by Britain. We want to see powers brought back from
Brussels and the EU's bureaucracy slimmed down."

British taxpayers have been subsidising Spain, Greece, Portugal, Ireland and
Belgium - which all receive more from Brussels coffers than they pay in.

Meanwhile, the National Audit Office has rapped Brussels after the European
Court of Auditors failed to give EU accounts a clean bill of health for the
tenth year running.

a.. CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown has blasted plans by Brussels to seize new
powers to probe his Budget. The European Commission wants snap inspections
of every EU country's financial headquarters.

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