EU Budget - Which Countries are EU Contributors and Beneficiaries? - eviltoast
  • letmesleep@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    It’s a big country with large regions that are still comparatively poor and agricultural. The latter two factors are what the EU pays for and the first works as a multiplicator.

    Per capita it looks a bit different. According bpd.de the main recipient per capita in 2022 was Estonia with 677 Euros per capita and year and the main contributor is indeed Germany with 237 Euros. Poland “only” gets 279 Euros per person and year.

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      11 months ago

      Agriculture is a great point overlooked in this chart.

      EU puts a lot of money into this, and Poland being a great exporter for this, they also receives alot from EU to be able to do it.

      Why are we doing it then, if it’s a net negative? It’s not, because we can all get our bread (literally) this way. And Poland farmers can make a living making the country richer.

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        11 months ago

        All countries get agricultural subsidies and Poland is not one of the big ones. They sit on place 5 with all 4 before them production at least twice as much. (see here, page 10)