WARSAW, Dec. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said Monday that the British proposal for the European Union's 2007-2013 budget is "unacceptable."

    The budget, unveiled by Britain earlier in the day, is not one of "solidarity," he told a news conference.

    "It is a budget that makes cuts rather than reforms by reducing the budget for new members," he said.

    Britain, which currently holds the EU presidency, proposed cutting the 2007-2013 budget to 846.8 billion euros (993.9 billionUS dollars), compared to the 871 billion proposed by previous president Luxembourg.

    Most of the savings would come from slashing 14 billion euros off aid to the EU newcomers, mostly eastern European states, and cutting 5 billion from rural development funds for western Europe.

    Poland will receive an aid of 56 billion euros, 5.6 billion euros less than the country would obtain under the budget proposedby Luxembourg, which the bloc failed to agreed upon in June.

    EU foreign ministers will debate the proposal on Wednesday and diplomats expect tough bargaining into the final hours of the Dec.15-16 summit. Enditem