BRUSSELS (AP) — Divisions among the 27 European Union countries over increasing the region’s €1 trillion budget deepened Tuesday as the region’s two opposing camps set out their arguments over raising spending in the midst of a three-year debt crisis.

A group of 15 of the political leaders meeting in Brussels Tuesday called for an increase in the EU budget, which is used to fund pan-European programs designed to ensure a level economic playing-field across the region. Meanwhile on a visit to Rome, David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the euroskeptic U.K. called on the EU to “live within its means”.

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