20 miles south from me.......Rothrham.

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They changed the calculations, decided our economy is bigger then it really is. They even don't shy away of adding revenues from prostitution and drugs. It's a robbery, simple as that.

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-601_en.htm

2. Does this year's technical adjustment take into account the new method to calculate member states' GDP (ESA 2010)?

No. This new method to calculate member states' GDP will have no impact on their GNI contribution to the EU budget until the new own resources decision comes into effect, which is probably 2016.

What kind of fringe blogs have you been reading again?

3. Why does this year's technical adjustment see such big increases of contributions to the EU budget for some member states?

This year's adjustment includes GNI re-calculation dating back to 2002 for most member states and to 1995 for one, as there were a number of unresolved issues that had accumulated over the last years. The decision to resolve these historic issues now results from a joint effort of member states in cooperation with Eurostat. With all these issues now cleared, future such corrections will again be rather minor, as they were in recent years.

Some member states have consistently reported too low values for their GNI over the last years, this obviously explain the size of some adjustments upwards.

In other words, some countries tried to get around payments by reporting false numbers/stole money.
Stop getting your information from the conspiracy fringe.

If not Greece, then a massive handout to Iceland. The point is that the money went to East Germany for decades and not to any other country that requires support which is not corrupt.

Is that net contribution or gross? The CAP is practically a system to support France's archaic farming practices and France liked the EU to give it more of a voice on the world stage (and generally anti the USA/UK axis); the Eastern Europeans have certainly messed this up. Germany was in there to promise to play nice with the others / cheaper to rule Europe this way.

Yes, just keep blaming France, which is only the second biggest net contributor, and let's not speak about Britain singlehandedly blocking banking legislation to suit it's archaic, bubble-creating, corrupt financial sector, that is almost the only sector it has left in almost the only worthwhile city it has left. Stop whining about other countries and start looking at the problems your own country creates. The whole accusation that Germany just wants more power is based on nothing than silly historical grievances that you otherwise claim to have gotten over long ago.