Where our EU aid money is spent.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....llions-money-aid.html

Iceland owes us £2.3billon,

/// 85p in every £1 spent from the EU aid budget goes to middle-income nations, including Brazil (whose economy was claimed to have overtaken ours this week), China and Argentina. ///

/// Turkey was handed £570 million last year by the EU, some £80 million of which came from British taxpayers. ///

/// It spent most of this massive gift on improving its sewage system — while in Britain, people face higher water bills to cover similar costly infrastructure upgrades. ///

/// The tide of cash to Istanbul also funds university courses for hundreds of Turkish students and trips around Europe for thousands of school pupils. ///

/// Or how about £800,000 for a Spanish firm to improve data protection in Israel; £96,000 for designing a report on aid; £40,000 for a circus festival in Egypt; £15,000 for surveying attitudes to Europe in Jordan; or £3,000 for a Tunisian company to buy ties emblazoned with the EU logo? ///

Should there now be a reduction in overseas aid?

[Gromit]

£6.7Billion to th UK (+ £3.6Billion rebate).

Just be glad you do not live in Luxemburg...

http://image.guardian.../01/26/EU27_Money.pdf