“No area can be exempt,” an official in Berlin said ahead of the visit, arguing that net contributor states – those who put more into the Brussels coffers than they get out – already finance roughly three quarters of the EU budget.

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    2 days ago

    Yeah, that debate was basically settled already in 1936ff by Keynes

    Kind of a telltale sign that conservatives still don’t get the message almost 100 years later.