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Re:Apocalypse Later: The End of Europe Has Been Delayed Inde... by danmaz74 on Friday September 30, 2011 @04:29PM (#3058466)
Usually the share of contributions to the EU by national states are proportional to GDP. So everybody (who adopted the Euro) is contributing, but Germany has the biggest proportion. A lot of haggling was needed to convince Finland to contribute...
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Re:Apocalypse Later: The End of Europe Has Been Delayed Inde... by juhanaj on Friday September 30, 2011 @05:41PM (#3058672)
The reason for the "haggling" was that there was parlamentary elections in Finland and the presidential elections is also pretty soon so the populists are playing their games.. I'd say most Finns just as happy to contribute as everyone else.
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Re:Apocalypse Later: The End of Europe Has Been Delayed Inde... by danmaz74 on Saturday October 01, 2011 @03:48AM (#3059585)
I understand that. I just wanted to point out that it isn't just Germany contributing, it is all Eurozone states.
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Re:Apocalypse Later: The End of Europe Has Been Delayed Inde... by tybris on Friday September 30, 2011 @04:36PM (#3058487)
Though strangely enough, the per-capita contribution of Germany is lower than that of Ireland.
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Re:Apocalypse Later: The End of Europe Has Been Delayed Inde... by Someone on Saturday October 01, 2011 @09:07AM (#3059976)
That isn't strange. The GDP per capita of Ireland is higher than that of Germany (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_European_Union#E...)
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Re:Apocalypse Later: The End of Europe Has Been Delayed Inde... by fleitz on Friday September 30, 2011 @05:09PM (#3058583)
That's how the rich get richer, Germany is in a realistic position to create it's own currency. Germany has better leverage over the situation than the Irish, hence they pay less.
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