Each year Poland receives more from EU

In 2006, Poland received the sum of 3billion euros net from the EU budget, i.e. almost two times more than in the previous years, results from a report on the fulfillment of last year’s budget presented by the European Commission reveals.

Last year, Poland received 5.3 billion euros from the EU budget, mainly as support for farming (2.142 billion) and in structural funds (1.951 billion).

Polish dues to the union purse amounted to 2.175 billion euros, which gives Poland exactly 2.997 billion net from the Union, constituting 1.16 percent of Poland’s GDP in 2006.

In comparison, in 2005 the net amount that Poland received was 1.667 billion euros and in 2004 – 1.409 billion.

Nevertheless, the main beneficiaries of the EU budget are still the ‘old’ EU members – France (13.5 billion), Spain (12.9 billion), Germany (12.2 billion), Italy (10.9 billion) and Great Britain (8.3 billion).
Source: thenews.pl