Digital BW, The Print

Steve Kale wrote:

>While I am at it let's not forget to mention the Common Agricultural Policy:
>a whole 40% of "Europe's" expected 875Bn Euro 2007-13 budget to be spent on
>subsidising inefficient farmers (previously as much as 70% of budget).
>That's some Euro350Bn folks!  No Europe isn't inefficient is it?  The French
>would reply "Non!".  And no Italian should be allowed to by an Epson printer
>(or anything other than a cappuccino) until they have paid down their
>national debt....  :-)
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That's not the inefficiency of the EC machine itself. Plain politics of 
the states. We, the Dutch would like to lower our 180 Euro a head a year 
contribution to the EC, the highest per head of the EC. That could 
easily be compensated by what the UK gets as a rebate on contribution, 
France gets in agriculture subsidies and most of all Spain that gets 260 
Euro a head from the EC. While very nice people in Spain you would 
expect that that contribution would create some education in second 
languages in Spain, of the 50 people I exchanged words with in May there 
was one with good English and a nice lady who could speak fluent French. 
Nada for the rest, a whole school class of teenagers in Madrid included. 
One day I would have written this anyway, Off Topic, I know.

Ernst