tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post2810952697421767842..comments2024-01-16T08:40:53.682+00:00Comments on <a href="http://www.openeurope.org.uk">Open Europe</a>: The £1.7bn question (Part II) - What are other EU finance ministers saying?OEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00556463374230498875noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-67209237915655423422014-11-10T20:20:25.388+00:002014-11-10T20:20:25.388+00:00Do the Brits actually usually get a 50% discount? ...Do the Brits actually usually get a 50% discount? Incredible! <br /><br />And yet still complain? There is no pleasing some people...<br /> Your 'picking the raisins out of the pie' approach is most sickening. I hope you will get your referendum and vote to leave.MC2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-78354850846855347022014-11-10T11:56:29.349+00:002014-11-10T11:56:29.349+00:00I know it's human nature to look for ways not ...I know it's human nature to look for ways not to pay, but this is no surprise bill, a large part of this country's economic success is down to being part of the EU. It's like you apply for <a href="http://sterlingstore.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">payday loans online</a> and you know you should pay the money back. I think it's fair. A lot of euroscheptics are saying that if the country comes out of the EU than there will be new trade agreements but I doubt very much that any profitable agreement will be reached. I know the EU has it's problems but I doubt anyone can name a government that hasn't.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00313053576578802094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-75196520890866627972014-11-10T09:52:13.301+00:002014-11-10T09:52:13.301+00:00hello,
I have a question about the British rebate....hello,<br />I have a question about the British rebate. Do the Britten pay less contributions to the EU? Why do they get a special treatment over the other EU countries? When do the EU cancel this advantage?<br />regards<br />Wonnihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15617818477369715829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-76463071510423758462014-11-08T15:29:09.343+00:002014-11-08T15:29:09.343+00:00Personally I think George Osborne has done a fanta...Personally I think George Osborne has done a fantastic job by finding out that the EU Commission had always intended to refund half of this extra contribution to the EU budget under the normal UK rebate system. <br /> <br />It couldn't have been easy to drag that information out of them, because his boss David Cameron had spent two days in Brussels in the company of EU leaders, including the President of the EU Commission, and as he had to admit in the Commons afterwards, at Column 30 here:<br /> <br />http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm141027/debtext/141027-0001.htm<br /> <br />he had been unable to discover whether this would be the case.<br /> <br />"One of the important questions that needs to be asked and properly answered about this proposed sum of money, which, as I have said, is still an estimate, is how much of it is applicable for the rebate. Obviously, that would make a potentially significant difference to the amount."<br /> <br />So well done, George Osborne, for making a special trip to Brussels and persisting and extracting a proper answer to that question, when the Prime Minister himself had obviously been frustrated in his attempts to do so over two days.<br /> <br />Although to be fair the latter was probably in a state of shock after being handed this massive bill, completely out of the blue, without any warning at all over preceding months; and so maybe it would be premature to suggest that George Osborne should take over from David Cameron as Prime Minister.Denis Coopernoreply@blogger.com