The latest data on Berlin’s transfers to the EU budget was compiled by Germany’s DPA news agency, tysol.pl wrote.
Meanwhile, the German government has said that the country earns EUR 132 billion a year from the EU’s internal market, according to tysol.pl.
“No other European economy benefits as much from the EU’s internal market as Germany,” the German government said on its website, as reported by the deutschland.de website.
Brussels coy about EU budget data
When asked by DPA about details of national payments into the EU budget, the bloc’s executive Commission declined to comment on the issue, according to tysol.pl.
Brussels has for some time refused to publish the EU’s budget, out of concern that the figures “may be used for political ends,” tysol.pl claimed.
This is a risk, for instance, when it comes to anti-EU groups in countries that make a net contribution to the bloc, such as Germany, tysol.pl said.
The European Commission also argues that not all the benefits of EU membership are reflected in the budget.
For instance, export-oriented member states, such as Germany, benefit financially from the bloc’s principle of free movement of goods, and these proceeds are not included in the EU budget, tysol.pl reported.
‘No other EU economy benefits as much from single market as Germany’
The German government recognises that “no other European economy benefits as much from the EU’s internal market as Germany,” tysol.pl said.
According to data released by the German government in February last year, membership of the EU’s single market “increases Germany’s per capita income by EUR 1,000 a year,” the Polish website also wrote.
Moreover, German products are in demand on the single market; in 2020, the bloc’s internal market accounted for 67.1 percent of Germany’s exports, the government in Berlin said, according to tysol.pl.
Some 28 percent of German jobs are export-related and therefore dependent on the EU’s single market, tysol.pl reported, citing the German government.
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Source: tysol.pl, tvp.info, deutschland.de