BRUSSELS — The European Commission should scrap plans to add some 2,500 staff and increase administrative spending at a time when capitals are being asked to tighten their belts, according to ministers from nine EU countries. In a letter addressed to Budget Commissioner Piotr Serafin and led by Austria, the ministers commend plans by the EU executive to streamline the bloc’s next long-term budget, known as the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). But they criticize the Commission’s request

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