EU ministers agree euro zone budget short of original ambitions
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LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - European Union finance ministers agreed on a small budget for the euro zone on Thursday, ending two years of talks that exposed their divisions over greater integration after a sovereign debt crisis that nearly destroyed the euro.The new budget -- the first for the euro zone as a whole -- will provide around 17 billion euros over seven years for the 19 countries using the euro. That leaves it just a shadow of French President Emmanuel Macron's original proposal, which..