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I don't know anyone who doesn't think there is a need for reform The EU is not very old ( our monarchy is over a thousand years old as a comparison ). The extended EU is even younger. The EU is like a toddler, it has a long life in front of it and needs to grow ( not in size, but in experience...

1. A very normal procedure with big projects. Only when the letters EU are involved is it a problem for people like yourself.. 2. Perfectly normal. Happens a lot in financing. More likely to succeed when people are prepared to invest as much with their own money. Only when the letters EU are...

And it would otherwise always go to worthwhile products in the UK?

Just because I think we should stay in the EU in our own interests doesn't mean I agree with everything in the EU. BTW.

I said that billions and billions come from the solidarity tax ( and the EU ). The majority is from West Germany- and it is billions..

Yes that's why countries have recently joined.... or did a jack booted Mad Merkel force them to?

A certain percentage of wealth should be used to assist the poorer areas of Europe. You appear to prefer animal charities to helping poor Poles...

The alternative is us sitting on money and most of Europe starving. Total Victorian attitude as with the class system this attitude would develop in our own country. Sooner or later we would end up with a war in Europe as the poor nations would rise up. In the meantime we would have less people...

The East has had huge investment and will continue to need some investment. It will never be as rich as NRW or Berlin ( could become) or Hamburg- it never was before the war. That has to do with industrial history and geography - not the EU.

Not possible

And gets a load back ... net is far less than 350 million- which has been proved a million times. The pro capita contribution is in realty peanuts. Making Europe a decent place to live, helping the poorer countries and improving the infrastructure is an absolute necessity if we want to prosper...

Yes, but Astute was saying that the Eastern regions were getting nothing. They were getting regional aid from the EU ( no matter where it came from ) and the solidarity tax from taxpayers the whole time. It is not that these people were left totally alone and therefore voted AfD. They don't want...

you misread what I said

No one said anything else.

Yes it does, but the East has received billions and billions from people like me through the Solidaritätsbeitrag ( solidarity contribution - an extra income tax ) and the EU through regional support. Unlike your claim that the East receives nothing.

You said the EU was getting billions whilst they weren't. Not true.

They didn't lose so much here. AfD support is regional. More in the East than in the West and in some inner city areas in the West. The East remains poorer than the West as it has little manufacturing base because of it's communist past. It relies a lot on tourism and agriculture. They don't...

The areas in the East have received billions and billions from Aufbauost - paid from taxes and the EU. Their economy was wrecked by the war and then communism - not the EU. The EU has helped them. But, as I keep saying, the election wasn't about the EU. All major parties, and to an extent even...

Things aren't the same as in 2015. They are already tightening up and saying that many refugees will have to go or want to go when the war in Syria ends. There is a 3 year rule about refugees. The situation has to be reviewed. Let's hope the situation in Syria improves. All this has not much to...

It was a terrible result for Merkel. No doubt about it. She will have a majority through a coalition- or worst way a minority government and then new elections. It was far worse for Schulz and the SPD. The liberals were big winners in comparison to 2013 in more than doubling their vote. They...