Comment Re:From what I can tell (Score 1) 535
Everyone need to be for any expansion of the capability? Not just majority?
As far as I understand, this affects the "Eurolaw"(?) (Primärrecht in German: the basic founding laws of the EU).
In order to change any of them, all participating countries must vote "yes".
Changes to other laws require only majority, but can be vetoed by any member with veto right. UK has veto right.
With sharing of wealth for instance Sweden is supposed to be the country which pay the most in vs what it get back / capita I think? I assume UK pay in more than what they get back directly, but of course they also have access to the market and the people and get to sell goods onto other EU nations and get their brightest people into their union.
Infographic. SE pays 3.8B, and receives 1.7B. UK 11.3 vs 6.9. (Wow, I always thought that UK is not part of the CAP, because they were deriding the program so much in the past, and yet they are.)
Outside the CAP, the money largely go to support poorer countries and regions: building infrastructure, improvement in education, and so on. To make sure that with the time they could raise their living standards. It was very insightful to read that some regions in UK are poor enough to receive that support (but largely voted to leave).