HOW MUCH DOES THE EU COST THE UK ?
In 2014, the UK's official gross payments to the EU amounted to £ 19.1 billion but the UK receives an automatic rebate of £ 4.4 billion. This means £ 14.7 billion was transferred from the UK to the EU in official payments.
The UK public sector also receives from the EU
- £ 1.1 billion (European Regional Development Fund)
- £ 2.3 billion (European Agricultural Guarantee Fund)
This gives a nert contribution of £ 9.9 billion.
The EU also provides EU payments to universities for research e.g. programmes like Horizon 2020 (approximately £ 1-2 billion a year).
Working an average for 2010-2014, this gives an annual contribution of £ 7.1 billion according to European Commission figures.
The £ 7.1 billion net contribution works out at 0.9% of public sector spending or £ 110 per person per year. It is 0.4% of GDP.
Contribution to EU per person (Euros)
- Luxembourg: € 544.76
- Denmark: € 381.39
- Finland: € 335.39
- Sweden: € 304.46
- Belgium: € 304.12
- Austria: € 297.37
- France: € 277.5
- Ireland: € 249.23
- Germany: € 240.62
- Netherlands: € 236.15
- Italy: € 235.84
- Spain: € 213.99
- Cyprus: € 190.71
- UK: € 180.38
- Slovenia: € 159.47
- Greece: € 155.8
- Portugal: € 151.28
- Czech Republic: € 139.41
- Malta: € 135.65
- Slovakia: € 106.87
- Estonia: € 101.98
- Lithuania: € 84.33
- Poland: € 83.77
- Hungary: € 83.76
- Latvia: € 77
- Romania: € 52.12
- Bulgaria: € 46.9
EU spending per person (Euros)
- Luxembourg: € 3025.40
- Belgium: € 617.85
- Greece: € 577.98
- Lithuania: € 541.44
- Hungary: € 533.85
- Portugal: € 446.01
- Latvia: € 439.11
- Slovenia: € 413.2
- Estonia: € 376.58
- Poland: € 374.79
- Ireland: € 358.75
- Slovakia: € 331.04
- Malta: € 325.72
- Spain: € 294.65
- Czech Republic: € 288.85
- Denmark: € 264.91
- Finland: € 240.55
- Austria: € 223.2
- Cyprus: € 218.6
- France: € 202.35
- Sweden: € 186.61
- Italy: € 157.69
- Bulgaria: € 150.23
- Germany: € 148.41
- Romania: € 124.19
- Netherlands: € 123.94
- UK: € 105.12
- Croatia: € 25.68
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