Britain's latest proposal for the EU budget has been condemned by East European states and the European Commission as inadequate and unfair.
The draft budget still proposes cutting structural and cohesion funds to the 10 new members, while increasing the British rebate.
The President of the EC, Jose Manuel Barroso, has said the British proposals do not go far enough.
EU leaders will seek to agree a new seven-year budget framework for 2007-2013 at tomorrow's EU Council meeting in Brussels.
Earlier today, the British government revealed the revised proposals in a statement by the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, posted on the British EU presidency website.
The package restored some cut aid to ex-Communist members Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Estonia and Latvia, and offered extra money to Slovakia and Lithuania for decommissioning nuclear plants.
But crucially, Britain did not increase the €8 billion it has offered to pay towards the cost of EU enlargement and it underlined that its annual rebate would rise from €5 billion to around €7 billion.
It proposed that the EU's 2007 to 2013 budget have an overall ceiling of €849.3 billion (1.03% of gross national income), slightly up from the €847 billion proposed on December 5.
Mr Straw said: 'We remain convinced that these proposals are good for Britain and good for Europe, and offer a sound basis for an agreement at this week's European Council.'
