As a follow-up to the previous post, our Norwegian correspondent The Observer sends this brief report on the Norwegian contribution to the EU’s commonweal, even though Norway is not a member of the Union:
I just finished reading your article about the EU membership states’ annual monetary contributions to the EU. I suppose we always knew that the northern European countries were the main financial contributors and the southern and eastern states the recipients.
I just wanted to add a fact to the equation that some probably aren’t aware of: Norway, a non-EU member state, forks out enormous sums of money to the EU in its capacity as an EEA member (European Economic Area).
According to newspaper sources Norway contributes more on a per capita basis than France and Italy. The annual financial EU-dhimmi tax from Norway is approximately 3.5 billion NoK (approx €473,000,000) which comes out at roughly €89 per citizen.
Who knows? With the way things are going, Norway’s financial contributions are probably going to increase drastically.
Redistribution of the wealth is popular with those who did not build it.
or possess it.
“which comes out at roughly €89 per citizen”
per tax-paying citizen? Or are you counting heads?