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Dave Keating

The EU budget amounts to roughly 1% of 🇪🇺GDP. Germany's federal government alone (excluding the Länder state budgets) is 12% of 🇩🇪GDP. The US federal government budget (again, not including state budgets) is 22.8% of 🇺🇸GDP.

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Dave Keating

For unitary states the contrast is even more striking. The Dutch national budget is 45% of 🇳🇱GDP - 45 times more than the EU. France's is 57% of 🇫🇷GDP.

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Dave Keating

Merz is pitching a fit about the new 🇪🇺budget creating 2,500 more EU civil service jobs. There are a total of roughly 55,000 EU civil servants. The German federal government employs 527,000. So that's: 🇩🇪:1 federal employee for every 159 residents 🇪🇺:1 confederal employee for every 7,800 residents

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Dave Keating

And remember, that's not even counting the civil servants who work for German states or cities. In the Netherlands (a unitary state), there's one civil servant for every 120 residents.

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Dave Keating

I'm so tired of EU national leaders talking out of two sides of their mouths - saying the EU should do more and be stronger and then refusing to give it the money and resources necessary to do so. Because they lack the political courage to be honest with citizens about why it is needed.

Northern leaders want to cut an EU budget already on a shoestringEU national leaders keep saying they want a union that “does more.” Then they show up in Brussels asking it to spend less.davekeating.substack.com