In 2017 Italy was one of the largest EU net contributors

[Deneb]

I am very surprised, because I had no idea that Italy was a net contributor of such magnitude. Italy contributes almost the same as France, but its political importance is infinitely inferior. To what is owed this?

[MinervaItalica]

Italy always contributed a lot and received less compared to other European countries. About the political importance I think it was because during 2017/18 till today we had a populist government thus looked bad in Bruxelles, a nest of leftists, banker bureaucrats.

PS: there is an English section for English language threads in Italy subforum.

[MinervaItalica]

The true surprise is to see a country like Spain on the same level of contributions of Cyprus...

[GiCa]

Yes, we freely give money to other EU states but we don't command.. We are plain depredated.

If anything states that contribute less than us aim to give us rules and command us..

And more schockingly, with all the money we give the EU still says that we are on debut with them and that we must give more money

[GiCa]

The true surprise is to see a country like Spain on the same level of contributions of Cyprus...

Yet the idiot of Sanchez still wants to command us as we have to take the invading boats.

What a scam,.. They suck us money and they contribute 0

[GiCa]

And.. Yes France is commanding too much

They donate money like us yet they have all the pretentiousness to command us
At least if we leave them to command ... Let s make France to pay almost the double we pay

They should back down if they contribute like us. If you wanna connand us you need to make you spill more money... But our ottuse curuopted and sold politicians don't point that when they soeat at strasbourg

[GiCa]

What were we aiming to when we sended kinds like him with his ottuse idiot clown expressions to sign for us and negotiate for us important treats and contracts..

È come auto tirarsi un calcio in culo



A firmare e a trattare ci si va più cazzuti e volitivi e più imperialisti

Tutte le volte che è andato a Strasburgo si è piegato sempre a 90 gradi per farci inculare da dietro

[Duffmannn]

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[Samnium]

UE is just merely a step toward a more ambitious goal that is to create the global village. Monnet said this some 60 years ago.

I have to speak also about Joseph Retinger, who is maybe the cornerstone of the creation of the UE. He was in fact the creator of the Bilderberg Club, the European Movement and one of the founders of the Congress of la Hague. This congress had a subsequent effect by gathering more than 800 european and North-american figures, the starting point of the european unification who led to the Treaty of Rome in 1957.

[Ouistreham]

I am very surprised, because I had no idea that Italy was a net contributor of such magnitude. Italy contributes almost the same as France, but its political importance is infinitely inferior. To what is owed this?

To the fact that the figures you quote are totally flawed and unreliable.
Official European Commission stats are quite different.