| starcraft said: I was just reading up on the EU's budget here, and the net loss that France, Germany and the UK get from the upkeep of the organization is astounding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#Traditional_own_resources Does someone they don't have to be European, want to explain to me why these three countries in particular continue to support the EU? |
Well for one, access to the giant market the EU created, so that any country that's not in the EU is at a disadvantage when trading with the EU. I actually believe if you want to sell a product in the EU and aren't part of the EU you have a big tarriff placed on it.
So if France left, it'd hurt their trade quite a bit.
Also, in general France is a much bigger player in the EU then it ever was with NATO... so it gives them a certain amount of poltical sway, note how the EU stopped their Roma expulsion investigation.
They'd lose their free travel rights.
Oh yeah and France also gets HUGE farm subsidies. Not sure the CAP is reflected in that.
