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I want my €116 back. Do you?

The EU's budget has been published, and the total to be spent on agriculture and ancillary matters comes to, get this, €57,525,729,686.00. Yup, there it is, on page 19.

Which is quite a lot of money. I make that £44,870,069,155.00.

Taking the population of the EU as being 497,198,740 that gives a cost of the CAP, per head, in direct costs only as €115.69 or £90.25.

(Edited to remove the superfluous renderings of the figure in full. Copy and paste problems not seen at the time of posting).

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Blogger Mrs Smallprint said... 7:00 pm

Strange how they not only charge us through the budget but also manage to put food prices up.  



Blogger Old BE said... 9:36 pm

It's amazing how little money it costs to screw up the world food market.  



Anonymous Anonymous said... 12:22 am

These could be useful numbers to follow on the lottery. They worked a treat for the nomenklatura.  



Blogger James Higham said... 8:26 am

The head's spinning. And all I need right now is one trillionth of that amount.  



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