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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
That would certainly work for me and when you refer to my country as a 'whiner' don't your country amongst a few others I suspect start 'whining' when you are asked to pay in extra contributions to make up the shortfall of a former (still currently) major financial contributor/net payer.
Looking at the 2016 figures (happy to see anything more current if available) the UK is the third largest payer (13.45% of the EU budget) and Finland ranks thirteenth contributing a massive 1.56%
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Here are some calculations from 2016 figures which were latest available in accessible format.
Finland
Contributes
1,828.65 M€
Receives
1,530.76 M€
Percentaga returned
83,7%
Net contribution
-297.89 M€
Per capita
-297,890,000 / 5,513,000 = -54.03 €
United Kingdom
Contributes
12,759.60 M€
Receives
7,051.55 M€
Percentage returned
55,3 %
Net contribution
-5,708.05 M€
Per capita
-5,708,050,000 / 66,040,229 = -86,43 €
In both cases per capita is calculated using 2017 estimates as posted in Wikipedia. Other data is retrieved from here:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/extern...efault_en.html
In summary its true that net payment (for that year, they vary from year to year) is smaller regarless of how you calculate it. However direct comparison between percentages of the EU budget at large paint somewhat skewed picture.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
Finland paid 1.5 bn to the EU in 2017, and got back 1.6 bn. No by a huge margin it nevertheless is a net receiver, and net receivers fear for their free income if net payers threaten to walk away.
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My visual impairement has progerred to the point where getting information from pictures is problematic. Do you have a text based source for same data?