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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The countries wishing to join; Albania and Serbia etc. are all financial basket cases seeking aid, a large proportion of which will come from the UK. The EU rules are that the more successful you are, the more you have to pay in. Cameron refused the demand for 2 billion last year, but in the end, it was quietly paid.
Gromit
//Our contributions to the EU are fixed to our GNI. We will pay the same amount if Serbia joins or not.//
It's very basic stuff: If a new member needs money (and boy will they need money!) a large proportion will have to come from the EU, the EU then demands more money from its members, and the UK pays more. The more successful the UK is, the bigger the proportion is its contribution.
Khandro,
// EU, the EU then demands more money from its members, and the UK pays more. //.
No it doesn't. Our contribution is fixed to our GNI. If that goes down, we pay less. If it does up we pay more, irrespective of Serbia joining.
The EU budget is set from a known figure of contributions. If contributions are up, it means Europe is doing well. There is always an allocation for EU Development. IF an new member country needed funds it would be prioritised from existing budgets.
// EU, the EU then demands more money from its members, and the UK pays more. //.
No it doesn't. Our contribution is fixed to our GNI. If that goes down, we pay less. If it does up we pay more, irrespective of Serbia joining.
The EU budget is set from a known figure of contributions. If contributions are up, it means Europe is doing well. There is always an allocation for EU Development. IF an new member country needed funds it would be prioritised from existing budgets.
Gromit, no, Khandro didn't say that. He said //Huge public opinion in Italy to leave.// - and he’s right. 48% is pretty substantial.
You said // It is pure fantasy that The french want to leave.// Not for 41% of the French – again a substantial number.
Wanting it to be as you’d like it to be doesn’t make it so, Gromit,
You said // It is pure fantasy that The french want to leave.// Not for 41% of the French – again a substantial number.
Wanting it to be as you’d like it to be doesn’t make it so, Gromit,
Naomi,
Ok, Huge public opinion in France and Italy to leave. But even more huge public opinion wanting to Stay.
If Leave get 41% on Thursday it will also be huge.
Jourdain2
The link Naomi supplied earlier had a poll of French voters, and 41% wanted a Frexit, (meaning 59% were for staying). Your recollections of your village in France do not seem to be representative of the nation as a whole.
Ok, Huge public opinion in France and Italy to leave. But even more huge public opinion wanting to Stay.
If Leave get 41% on Thursday it will also be huge.
Jourdain2
The link Naomi supplied earlier had a poll of French voters, and 41% wanted a Frexit, (meaning 59% were for staying). Your recollections of your village in France do not seem to be representative of the nation as a whole.
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