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Originally Posted by STEED
I only posted this headline as it comes from the right wing Daily Express gutter press here.
So I will ask is this true or fake news?
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Four or five days ago the main media outlets in Germany and the Tagesschau indeed said that Germany will need to pay an additional 15 billion Euros to the EU per year - additonal to the money it already transfers per year right now.
Add to this the indirect costs due to the changes in trade bilance between Germany and the UK, the losses in taxes due to companies reducing trade with the UK, and so forth.
So the number you read in the Daily Express is not exaggerated. It probably is even too low, if calculating hidden idirect costs as well. The 16 billion mentioned are only due to the schemes by which economic size and populatio size of nations decide the share they have to take for the yearly budgets of the EU. If the UK leaves, that lack needs to be compensated for, and the biggest share will be paid by Germany, as always.
Still , in the ECB decision makings and the eU gremia, Germany has a voting weight of one - like an economic nobody like Malta has "one" as well. Its hilarious. The Germans must have lost their marbles when accepting this bollocks scheme. Its an invitation for abuse. And practically everybody seems to accept it. Serves us right.
But once Germany falls, we will take all of Europe with us. Sounds familiar, eh?