Mitsotakis on EU budget: 'We cannot be expected to do more with less'

European Union leaders start two days of tough talks on Thursday on a joint seven-year budget from 2021 and must work out how to fill a 75 billion euro ($81 billion) hole left by Britain's departure just as they face costly climate, migration and development challenges.

CZECH PRIME MINISTER ANDREJ BABIS

"I don't think so (that there would be a deal now). The positions are so different that I don't expect it."

ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER GIUSEPPE CONTE

"We expect a complicated negotiation. We have to be very ambitious."

"We have to be ambitious on own resources."

"We don't like rebates."

SPANISH PRIME MINISTER PEDRO SANCHEZ

"The (budget) proposal... is highly disappointing...worse not only for the EU as a whole but also for Spain."

"It reduces in a...