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Ireland Tops Cash per Head Income Aid from European Union
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Sunday September 19, 2004 14:50 by Michael Hennigan - Finfacts.oc finfacts at finfacts dot ie 087- 2474328
Despite being one of the richest countries of the European Union, Ireland will continue to receive s Last June, during the voting on the referendum on citizenship, an exit poll of 3.300 voters which had been commissioned by RTE Radio, found that 36% of yes voters at 166 polling stations agreed that the main reason for their vote was because 'the country is being exploited by immigrants.' Another 27% had agreed with the statement that 'there are too many immigrants in the country.' Other European taxpayers are still funding us, with the largest shares paid by the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden. Germany has been the leading contributor to Ireland's net receipts of €34 billion since joining the then European Community in 1973-the amount would be considerably higher if stated in current money values. Today, Germany has many economic problems in particular in the former East Germany where unemployment is 20%. |
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Jump To Comment: 1I'm not sure, but I seem to remember reading that EU funding was supposed to stop, but because the LUAS was taking so long the Irish gov managed to squeeze more money out of the kitty.
Rather like the Spanish government which likewise turned a one year construction project into a decade's work with the still unfinished AVE high speed rail link (a sort of TGV) across the pyrennes to Madrid.
ahem....
Rather like the Greek government which likewise turned a two year construction project into a decade's work with the trans-Balkans motorway and bridge link.
I'm no expert on these things, but it seems that somewhere along the line, the same type of politician "with links to construction and engineering entities" across Europe, managed to squeeze several billion Euros extra out of the structural funds simply by "being crap at the job".
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You get someone in to do your house-
"Who did that? Jayzhus you were had, nothing but a bunch of cowboys, yeah give us a week and it will be done".
a week later-
"Oh well there's been a lot of problems, it's your walls there not alligned you see, means we have to rethink all the verticals and horizontals"
two weeks later-
"Oh well the hardware store is out of horizontals and verticals and we're waiting for some new ones to come in"
three weeks later-
"I've a mate in the trade who has a few horizontals and verticals left over rom a an old job, and you could buy them, cash only, no point in waiting".
and on and on and on.-