i love xbox360 said:
DeduS said:
i love xbox360 said:
DeduS said:
NKAJ said:
Tallgeese101 said:
Oi guys, leave the French alone. The French (and many nations in the EU) are getting billions in subsidies and all they have to do is let the Germans have a little bit of control over their lives and sacrifice a bit of their national pride.
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Germany coudnt take over europe even if they wanted to .They might have been strong in 1940 but those days are over.
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Well... we could stop paying for this whole EU-bullshit - that would cause some trouble. :D
Actually it would be quite nice to invest in our own country again - the EU finances are fubar. The financial burden of the EU is unjustly shared.
@topic: I never felt the UK was so different from the rest of Europe - actually, mentality wise, I feel way closer to the UK than to France or Italy.
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are you trying to say that germany pays for most of the eu??? if you do my friend then you need to do some research
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union
and i agree with you im from england but the country i feel the closest to is germany having been there i have to say i love the place 
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Yes I do - kind of - according to your link we pay the most, but not for the most. The chart in your link at least seems fairer than it was before, but it contains estimated data. I was referring to the past and just assumed nothing had changed. ^^
But most of the data doesn't add up, so I don't know which to trust.
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well you should pay the most money into the eu as ur economy is the biggest. so it is fair(yes i no the uk dose not pay enough )
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Yeah I know and seeing the numbers in your link it seems fine, but I've seen some "horrible" numbers before and since I don't know which are real, there's really no point in discussing them. But if you're interested:
From the German Wikipedia:
2005 || 2008 in Mio. €
Germany -7141 || -8774
France -3051 || -3843
Italy -2947 || -4101
UK -2865 || -844 (typo?)
Netherlands -2035 || -2678
Sweden -1060 || -1463
Belgium -536 || -721
Austria -365 || -356
Denmark -225 || -543
Luxembourg -93 || -22
Finland -70 || -319
So it seems to move in the right direction, but in the 90s and early 00s it was really out of whack.
