And the government in Warsaw will resist pressure for too many cuts, particularly to cohesion funds.
First, there are the unused structural and cohesion funds that some of the crisis economies have access to.
Mr Ferreira questioned why the cohesion funds were being used in this way, instead of being funded through taxation.
Cohesion funds pay for things like job training, cleaning up polluted rivers and, above all, roads, bridges, sewers and other infrastructure.
Less controversially, funding for Cohesion funds - money used to help newer EU members bridge the wealth gap - have emerged largely unscathed.
Mr Cameron chose not to blame countries demanding more spending - the French for their farmers or the Poles for their so-called cohesion funds.
Similarly, the regional and now cohesion funds had positive effects in the British economy in the Seventies and later in the transition economies such as Ireland.
The Poles fear that a budget freeze will reduce the funds they receive from the cohesion funds - EU money that helps the poorest regions across the 27-nation bloc.
The EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner, Olli Rehn, has already warned that Hungary could face a suspension of EU cohesion funds - support for regional projects.
He pointed out that the UK made up 10% of errors in certain areas of spending - whereas Poland, the largest recipient of cohesion funds, was error-free.
And cohesion funds have not been spent on infrastructure alone.
Spending areas like the cohesion funds, which provide support for poorer parts of the EU, came in for particular criticism, with accusations that around 2.7bn were paid out in error.
In particular, they will work to secure reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and Structural and Cohesion Funds and to ensure that the EU policies and institutions meet the concerns of our citizens.
His Portuguese colleague Marisa Matias claimed the policy went against an earlier threat by the EU to suspend cohesion funds from countries - like Portugal - who did not meet their public deficit targets.
The tinkering the prime minister was complaining about was the offer made last night to cut funds to the EU's poorer regions (so-called cohesion funds) a little less than originally proposed and cut subsidies to farmers (as ever the key concern of the French) a little less too.
Others suggest financial penalties, such as holding back cohesion and structural funds, even support for farming and fisheries.
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