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all I was pointing out is that there are basic, evident reasons why the UK net contribution should be increasing, and, as you dug up, it should have actually increased quite a bit more than it has.

But yes, of course, it is vet easy to create confusion with multi-year, multi-currency numbers that get adjusted ex-post under complicated rules and can be provided on a gross basis, per capita basis, and compared to the good old pre-Blair / pre-enlargement numbers...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Sep 6th, 2009 at 06:16:50 AM EST
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"Not so huge" was not an objection to your point, but to the outraged shreiks of the UK Europhobes.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Sep 6th, 2009 at 03:54:27 PM EST
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