Brexit

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Pyro as Bill said:
Total EU spending in Luxembourg: € 1.827 billion
Total Luxembourg contribution to the EU budget: € 0.307 billion

I can understand why those protesters are so angry at losing one of the biggest net contributors.

Just FYI, those were British nationals living in Luxembourg, not Luxembourgers. There are a couple thousand Brits living in Luxembourg, and they are overwhelmingly against Brexit.

Also, expenditures in Luxembourg are so high because of all the European Institutions there (the European Court of Justice, the Secretariat of the Assembly, the European Investment Bank and the Court of Auditors), which cost 1.6334 billion Euro in 2018. If you were to count those out, then Luxembourg would also be a net contributor since it depends on the GDP per capita as to whom spends more and whom gets more. But Luxembourg is so small that the costs of running the Institutions outweights what Luxembourg has to spend.

Also, due to the rebate the UK already had, they were spending less than half of what Germany does for the EU. UK even contributes less than Italy despite that country being much poorer than the UK. That's a full 5 billion that the other countries have to pay more already due to the rebate.