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Originally Posted by Vaufi
Interesting discussion, which I presume is mainly of importance to the British. The „continentals“ are often much less inclined to linger on this subject. They usually dismiss this as dreams of imperial grandezza of past centuries  Many people on the continent believe that the UK tries to exert pressure on the EU just to pick the rasins, i.e. to get a better deal at the expense of the other members.
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Why shouldn't we as we are in the top 5 of the highest payers to the EU rather than the top 5 of the highest takers
Yes I know it is based on GNI, a percentage of VAT and additional revenues
But in 2013 (according to the daily telegraph) we payed a total of 17 billion Euro whilst only getting 6.3 billion back so our Net contribution was 10 billion give or take, whilst another country paid 4.2 billion euros and took 16.1 billion,,,thats why we like raisins.
As I have said before that money may be better spent looking after our own people instead of propping up others. That is one of the things for me that should change if we stop in.
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looking further we got a 4 billion rebate along with Germany, Austria, Holland and Sweden (don't know how much they got)...bonus
Last edited by Lonerider; 20 Jan 2016 at 13:45.
Reason: added info
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