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Re:The program to build NASA’s moon rocket could double in p... by Someone on Thursday October 11, 2018 @02:52PM (#18196074)
”and they don't have international money redistribution programs”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Regional_Development_...:

”The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is a fund allocated by the European Union. Its purpose is to transfer money from richer regions (not countries), and invest it in the infrastructure and services of underdeveloped regions”

https://www.welcomeurope.com/european-funds/erdf-1-european-...:

”Global budget: 183,3 billion euro (2014-2020)”

That’s 30-ish billion euro a year.

Lack of EU-wide social security payments may be a problem, though.

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Re:The program to build NASA’s moon rocket could double in p... by notfromhere on Thursday October 11, 2018 @04:54PM (#18196954)
30 billion a year for an economy the size of the EU is a rounding error.
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Re:The program to build NASA’s moon rocket could double in p... by Someone on Saturday October 13, 2018 @01:35PM (#18209049)
It isn’t for the EU. The EU budget for 2018 is €160 billion (https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-annual-budget...)

For comparison, the USA has a federal budget of about $4 trillion.

The problem is that “the EU” doesn’t have an economy, and still is mostly built from individual economies.

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