Backlash! 8 European nations just said NO WAY to Brussels as EU tries to...

THE EUROPEAN Union is facing a huge backlash after eight nations rejected the bloc's plans to impose new rules.

Austria, Denmark, Latvia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden have crushed the EU's dreams of loosening the bloc's deficit rules. Ahead of an informal gathering of their peers in Slovenia this Saturday, the countries issued a document to the bloc.