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That increases the budget of the eu parliament with 2.2% on a yearly basis if paid out in one go. [1082B for 2014-2020, 4B/1082B*6y~2.2%] A loss of 4B is a de
by RandomWorker 4y ago
That increases the budget of the eu parliament with 2.2% on a yearly basis if paid out in one go.
[1082B for 2014-2020, 4B/1082B*6y~2.2%]
A loss of 4B is a decrease of revenue by 1.5% for google.
[googles revenue was 256B in 2021 4/256~1.5%]
- markdestouches 4y agoGives you a good perspective on how big google is and how much influence it potentially has.
- davidguetta 4y ago
- nielsole 4y agoThe budget is publicly available: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32022B0182&from=EN https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
- statusfailed 4y agoIt mostly funds projects: > Approximately 94% of the EU budget funds programmes and projects both within member states and outside the EU. Less than 7% of the budget is used for administrative costs, and less than 3% is spent on EU civil servants' salaries. From [0], see also [1] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#Proportional_outgoings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union#P... [1]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/organisation-and-rules/parliaments-budget https://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/organisat...
- origin_path 4y agoThat's a tautology, the spending for every government will primarily go on "programmes and projects".
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoNegotiate trade agreements for the second largest market in the world. Make harmonised law and regulations and operate the courts associated. Finance infrastructure projects and the development of the poorest members. Manage various cooperation efforts between members in sector like education.
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoEU needs to do a better job at showing how useful it is, where the money goes and so on, so that people stop having this vague idea of what EU is and does, and start seeing the benefits. Should do a good job at reducing the number of eurosceptics.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoFunny. I just heard literally the opposite complain a couple hours ago: that the EU advertisements are getting obnoxious. Virtually every single infrastructure project that is even partially financed by a EU agency shows all the appropriate logos almost everywhere.
- KAMSPioneer 4y agoHa, I can see why; I work in an institute that receives funds from time to time for infrastructure enhancements and large projects. We have those logos scattered throughout some equipment, hanging in rooms, etc. It's far from intrusive, though. I would rather see a sign that says "EU helped pay for this" than product placement, if I'm being candid.
- mhh__ 4y agoThe EU has a GDP of almost 20 Trillion, what kind of magnitudes of cash would you expect?
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- otikik 4y agoYou mean The European Parlament, or Google?
- saiya-jin 4y agoif you would actually visit (not only) poorer parts of EU, you would find entire new roads built or repaired completely by EU funds. Parks created, playgrounds built, many many useful things for common population. Companies can apply for various funds ie to get more eco-friendly. Its true that some of it gets stolen by local corruption but overall this is the source of many good things that folks can actually see around them, in places that wouldn't get any otherwise.
- dkarl 4y agoIf you're interested, there's a fascinating book called Life of a European Mandarin that provides an insider view and manages to be entertainingly written despite being about the incredibly dry work the EU does. It gives a vivid glimpse into how hard and tedious it is to accomplish things that are obvious wins like harmonizing trivial differences in laws across borders. You would expect it to be the kind of book you have to force yourself to finish, and there are certainly moments like that, but overall it reads more like a guilty pleasure, and I highly recommend it. It gave me respect for that kind of work and also makes me very glad I chose a different profession.
- bzxcvbn 4y agoThe budget of the EU parliament? What do you mean? The budget of the parliament was about 740k€ in 2022. Did you mean the budget of the EU itself? It's about what you said (180B€ in 2022). Of course, that doesn't account for individual member States' budgets. The EU's budget is dwarfed by the aggregate of all members' budgets, and it is lower than most of the big EU countries' budgets.
- 988747 4y agoDid you mean 740k EUR per person? I can't find the whole budget right now, but it costs EU parliament over 100 million just to move it back and forth between Brussels and Strasbourg (which is totally pointless and is only done so that France can feel important). They also apparently spend 1 billion per year on translators. EDIT: I guess I offended some French people, hence the downvotes :)
- manholio 4y ago> They also apparently spend 1 billion per year on translators. Now that the UK is out of the Union, it would be nice for sanity to prevail and most of those translators be made redundant. Except for drafting official multi-language legal documents, the bulk of the proceedings can go on in English, and EMPs that require translation services should request them from their own countries. It will never happen, but one can surely dream.
- FridayoLeary 4y agoSanity is not one of the hallmarks of the monster that is the EU bureaucracy.
- ignaloidas 4y agoEU publishes tons of written material, and basically all of it has to be translated. Costs for translating the proceedings are very likely less than 1% of total costs for translation.
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- spywaregorilla 4y agoEMEA represents about 31% of revenues. Google makes about 76B in net income. So another way to look at this is 21% of profits in Europe for a year.
- josefx 4y agoAnother way to look at this is 2% if you split it over all the years the illegal behavior has been going on and then going through the courts.