Breitbart
No EU nation wants to pay more to make up for the 75 billion euro ($81.5 billion) gap the British have left in the next EU budget, but a great many poorer EU members want to receive at least as much from the bloc as they did in the past. And new projects, like the vaunted Green Deal project for the EU to become climate neutral by 2050, need to be funded.
To reconcile the irreconcilable, EU Council President Charles Michel has asked EU leaders to see what their budget demands are and how he can temper them ahead of a special summit next week.
The fight comes down to whether the EU’s budget will be 1 per cent, 1.1 per cent or 1.3 per cent of the bloc’s GDP. That fight over a fraction of a percentage point — as much as lofty goals about the EU’s place in the world — will dominate the EU for the next few months much like Brexit dominated the bloc’s agenda for the last four years. More
Gee, what did Maggie say about “other people’s money”?
Shouldn’t UK’s contribution essentially be spent on UK? Oh, you were gouging them but wanted them to remain? Hahahaha.
What’s the total EU budget, so we can calculate what percentage that represents the UK’s €75,000,000,000? Cut all budget items by that percentage across the board. I imagine, though, that a lot of that will be eaten (!) up by increased dental repair work necessitated by the increased gnashing of teeth.
Haaaaaaaaa hahahahahahahahaha!
eu parasites need $$$? pull it out of your a**, d-suckers.
Gosh, when a net giver leaves the socialist pool, that leaves the takers crying foul and wondering who’s going to keep their gravy train flowing. Surprise, surprise.
Maybe they can save money by not shipping up to Strasbourg from Brussels and back.
Every 4 weeks for 4 days all the representatives (751 Members of European Parliament), their staff, and equipment get on a train and go back and forth for some bullshit reason.
“Strasbourg shift” as it is called.
The cost of this literal Gravy train ride is 114 Million Euros.
No wonder many countries want out.
As soon as he figures out how to get them to pay, let’s use that same system for their NATO contribution 😃
that 75 billion was for the “European green new deal to become carbon neutral by 2025”. How are they going to do that now without that $75 billion!
This is an outrage!
Anybody taking bets on whether the remainers will put up or shut up?
Have them hire cheaper prostitutes that should cover it. Riding the gravy train is coming to a end. Let them be green and phone it in.
Don’t make sense.
That should be 75 Billion LESS the EU must shell out now that the UK is gone.
Or are they implying that the UK was paying more than its “fair share?”
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