These kinds of charts are a bit dangerous, as it will be used by anti-EU folk in net contributing countries to say look at how much money we can save when we leave the EU. But this looks only at money being shipped back and forth. The EU has so much benefits in terms of trade and collaboration, it's a steal at any price.
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All people have to do to refute the leavers is point to the UK
These people are usually reality deniers, so showing them anything is a no go.
And you know how they do it too.
First they do a whole FUD campaign, which get the people riled up and polarized. Up till the point that it doesn't matter what the truth is, it's tribalism, us against them etc. This phase is in full swing in Europe right now. Next they say well what if we do a non binding referendum? It shows the people we are actively taking an interest and we get to see what people think. If everyone votes remain, the issue is done and buried. Then leading up to the referendum they do a massive misinformation campaign, with TV ads, social media ads and posts, etc. Everything they can do to misinform the public, with Russia footing the bill for most of it. Most people aren't interested enough to dive into such a complex topic (and I don't blame them, it's very complicated), so they'll go off their gut and their gut is influenced by their experience in the world and on social media, so they will vote exit. After the referendum is done and the outcome is 50/50, they'll go yell: "THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN". And before you know it your whole country goes to shit and you are leaving the EU and basically committing economic suicide. By the time people realize what happened, it's much too late and all the shitbags responsible have gone away.
If you told me this before Brexit, I would have laughed and told you it's total BS. But then it happened in real life and I don't know how to deal with that.
It would be interesting to see this chart when the UK was included.
The UK would have been on par with France.
Ugh this country is so dumb
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Exactly. Germany makes way more than 25 billion Euro by being able to freely trade with neighbours.
Not to mention the fact that the โฌ's low value makes german goods much more competitive for international export.
Also by improving struggling countries it means you have more and stronger markets to sell to. When you empower your neighboring countries everyone is safer and stronger.
But this looks only at money being shipped back and forth.
Not even that. It only looks at money being shipped back and forth via one specific channel.
Also, Germany has been by far the biggest beneficiary of the euro so it all evens out.
Not surprised about Hungary, but hoooly FUCK, what's going on in Poland?
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.
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.
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)
War in Ukraine. A whole fuckload of people that seek asylum in Poland for obvious reasons.
2021?
Would be nice to have the same data per capita.
statistia-netcontrib.csv
country,netcontrib
DE,25572
FR,12380
NL,6929
IT,3337
SE,2826
DK,1766
AT,1540
FI,1109
IE,703
MT,-14
CY,-172
SI,-386
EE,-729
LT,-860
SK,-1398
LV,-1544
BG,-1727
HR,-1746
ES,-1946
LU,-2020
CZ,-2853
BE,-2950
PT,-3132
RO,-4096
HU,-4206
GR,-4278
PL,-11910
eu-contribution-per-capita.r
if (!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman")
pacman::p_load(
countrycode,
dplyr,
ggdark,
ggplot2,
r2country
)
abs <- read.csv("statista-netcontrib.csv",header = TRUE)
abs2 <- cbind(abs,name = countrycode(abs$country,"iso2c","country.name"))
df <- inner_join(country_names, abs2)
df2 <- inner_join(country_population, df)
df2$percap <- df2$netcontrib/df2$population2023*1000000
df3 <- arrange(df2,percap)
ggplot(df3, aes(x = percap, y = reorder(name, percap))) +
geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
dark_theme_gray() +
ylab("Country") +
xlab("Euros per capita") +
scale_x_continuous(breaks = scales::pretty_breaks(n = 20)) +
geom_text(aes(label = percap))
ggsave("euros-percap.png")
Sorry about the broken escaping of the angle brackets (โ<โ is โ<โ) in the source; Lemmy is, regrettably, broken on that at the moment.
EDIT: Fixed Latvia country code error.
EDIT2: And Austria country code error.
Also, a Markdown table rendition:
eu-contribution-per-capita-markdown.r
if (!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman")
pacman::p_load(
countrycode,
dplyr,
r2country,
simplermarkdown
)
abs <- read.csv("statista-netcontrib.csv",header = TRUE)
abs2 <- cbind(abs,name = countrycode(abs$country,"iso2c","country.name"))
df <- inner_join(country_names, abs2)
df2 <- inner_join(country_population, df)
df2$percap <- df2$netcontrib/df2$population2023*1000000
df3 <- arrange(df2,-percap)
md_table(df3)
| name | percap |
|---|---|
| Netherlands | 386.91124 |
| Germany | 302.86855 |
| Denmark | 297.09908 |
| Sweden | 267.98643 |
| Finland | 199.90810 |
| France | 181.71677 |
| Austria | 168.68113 |
| Ireland | 136.52768 |
| Italy | 56.76638 |
| Malta | -26.94577 |
| Spain | -40.25217 |
| Slovenia | -182.27546 |
| Cyprus | -187.34343 |
| Romania | -214.99549 |
| Belgium | -250.73894 |
| Slovakia | -257.60767 |
| Bulgaria | -267.84703 |
| Portugal | -299.21568 |
| Lithuania | -300.05251 |
| Poland | -315.86485 |
| Greece | -408.10926 |
| Hungary | -438.25808 |
| Croatia | -449.01298 |
| Estonia | -533.72029 |
| Latvia | -819.79399 |
| Luxembourg | -3056.85909 |
This is very clever. Is Lemmy actually running the code to achieve this, or did you paste it just so other people can replicate the process?
Nah, I just pasted it so that other people can reproduce.
Poland and hungary are constantly complaining about the EU and vetooing laws too
Interesting. The red bars almost exclusively belong to nations that had authoritarian single party government in the last half century.
When laid out like this you really see how deviating and long term the consequences of authoritarianism can be. Stable healthy democracy is a fucking superpower.
I'm Polish. So, if I understand this correctly, we are getting the most out of the EU, and yet still people here are complaining about it. And about Germany.
Luxembourg and Belgium?
Both host import EU institutions. The income they provide for the locals, possibly indirectly, is also seen as a benefit.
Strasbourg in France should also make a dent into France's contributions then. Would be nice to know how much it would be, without those things calculated in - sure they are?
Is the European Central Bank taken into consideration for Germany?
No clue
Is there some stomach-able raw data?
Poland - Kentucky of EU