Talk:Budget of the European Union

Full Update (October 2015)
The data on this page has not been updated in a long time. In addition, the current text is dense and not as easy to understand as it could be. I therefore propose to update this article fully, including to: Please reply below if you have any comments or concerns. Slugfilm (talk) 08:31, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * reflect latest available EU data from Europa.eu; and
 * re-structure and re-write key sections to make the article easier to read.

The data on the page seems to imply that the largest and richest countries of EU (Germany, UK, France, etc.) are subsidized by the poorer countries (Greece, Portugal, Poland, etc.). For example, the net contribution of Germany is shown as negative 9.5 billion euros, which most people, including myself would interpret as "Germany receives 9.5 billion more from EU than it contributes". On the other hand, Greece is shown as having net contribution of almost 5 billion euros. This is contrary to many other sources that show that only rich countries (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Finland, Belgium, and Luxembourg) provide income for EU budget. What is wrong? Do you use some other definition of "net contributor" e.g., with a reverse meaning that positive net contribution equates to receiving funds? Or am I missing something? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.66.178.23 (talk) 02:06, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

Makes sense, I will try to update some of the figures at least.

Queens1798 (talk) 11:11, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Complex language
"The EU also spends its budget by sustainable growth. This means that the annual percentage of increase in sales that is consistent with a defined financial policy."

Deleting this without replacement as have no earthly idea what it means. If anyone thinks it needs to be reinstated, please do with clarification. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Queens1798 (talk • contribs) 13:29, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

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Merging this page and the Multiannual Financial Framework page
A lot of the processes here are the processes that take place for the MFF. Why is this a seperate page? Chefs-kiss (talk) 18:10, 5 July 2023 (UTC)