{"id":36004,"date":"2016-09-30T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36004"},"modified":"2017-09-25T22:11:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T02:11:53","slug":"net-contributors-to-the-eu-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/09\/30\/net-contributors-to-the-eu-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Net contributors to the EU budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rather revealing post at <a href=\"http:\/\/order-order.com\/2016\/09\/29\/germany-realises-theyre-getting-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Guido Fawkes<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/EU-net-contributors.png\" alt=\"eu-net-contributors\" width=\"540\" height=\"437\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/EU-net-contributors.png 540w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/EU-net-contributors-150x121.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/EU-net-contributors-480x388.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liam Fox told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2016\/10\/liam-fox-on-why-may-is-better-than-cameron\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Spectator<\/em><\/a> that Germany risks becoming the world\u2019s biggest cash machine after Brexit because it may end up paying for a failing European Union that is in danger of imploding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>\u201cIf I were a German politician I would be worried that, without Britain, Germany has the potential to become the greatest ATM in global history.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><em>They\u2019ve figured this out for themselves\u2026<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Of the 28 current members of the EU it may surprise co-conspirators to learn that only 12 countries were net contributors. Ireland has become the the thirteenth net contributor for the first time since it joined in 1973, hitherto it has been a net beneficiary to the order of \u20ac50 billion. <font color=\"red\"><em>Expect Irish attitudes to the EU to change as that equation changes.<\/em><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather revealing post at Guido Fawkes: Liam Fox told the Spectator that Germany risks becoming the world\u2019s biggest cash machine after Brexit because it may end up paying for a failing European Union that is in danger of imploding: \u201cIf I were a German politician I would be worried that, without Britain, Germany has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,1118],"tags":[697,337,33],"class_list":["post-36004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-germany","tag-budget","tag-eu","tag-ireland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9mI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36006,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36004\/revisions\/36006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}