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A Second Lisbon Vote to be announced shortly? | 134 comments (134 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: A Second Lisbon Vote to be announced shortly? (none / 0)

<sigh> Who wants to revise the difference between income and wealth?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Nov 17th, 2008 at 02:53:17 AM EST
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Re: A Second Lisbon Vote to be announced shortly? (none / 1)

Touché, I didn't use the proper words in that respect. I don't think I actually confuse the two though. And while Ireland are (were?) indeed better off in income than wealth, it's not doing too bad on either one.

"The womb that spawned that thing is fertile yet"

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Mon Nov 17th, 2008 at 03:28:15 AM EST
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Well, it depends how you measure wealth: our infrastructure is still pretty far behind the really wealthy countries, partially because of our dear government's mismanagement and partially simply because we haven't had time to build it up yet.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Nov 17th, 2008 at 03:34:15 AM EST
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Re: A Second Lisbon Vote to be announced shortly? (none / 1)

I meant relative to the EU as a whole, not just relative to the wealthy countries.

"The womb that spawned that thing is fertile yet"

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Mon Nov 17th, 2008 at 04:32:29 AM EST
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Re: A Second Lisbon Vote to be announced shortly? (none / 0)

Including new member states?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Nov 17th, 2008 at 05:02:27 AM EST
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Re: A Second Lisbon Vote to be announced shortly? (none / 1)

Well, yes. They are the natural recipients of structural funds these days. It's only natural that Ireland should be a net contributor now that we have those member states!

"The womb that spawned that thing is fertile yet"

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Mon Nov 17th, 2008 at 05:41:25 AM EST
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Re: A Second Lisbon Vote to be announced shortly? (none / 0)

And now we are: we switched a few years ago as I recall.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Nov 17th, 2008 at 05:42:50 AM EST
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Are you sure? (none / 1)

According to this website Ireland in 2007 was still a net recipient?
Not an official website though so they might be wrong.

But it seems that according to the EU budget 2007 report (pdf-file) Ireland:
National contribution Ireland: 1586,4 mill Euro
Allocation of EU expenditure Ireland: 2166,7 mill Euro

Assuming of course that IE means Ireland. :)

by Detlef (Detlef1961_at_yahoo_dot_de) on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 04:40:28 PM EST
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