The eight countries which make a net contribution to the EU budget want to cut EU officials' pensions.
The group - Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK - put forward its ideas in an internal letter sent to the European Commission on 17 September.
For any EU staff reading the text, the scariest bits come on page three.
The paper - seen by EUobserver - says EU own contributions to the pension fund should go up from 33 percent to as m...
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