Budget of the European Union

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1. In the 2006 budget, the largest single expenditure item was agriculture (direct aid, export refunds, storage, rural development and other) with around 46.7% of the total budget

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2. The European Union is an association of 27 independent member states

   

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3. The Administration of the Union has a parliament, a civil service and a judiciary that is distinct from those of the member states

   

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4. The Administration of the European Union has three elements to its government: the Council of Ministers, the European Commission and the European Parliament

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5. These arms administer the application of treaties, laws and agreements between the member states and their expenditure on common policies throughout the Union

   

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6. To pay for this, the EU had an agreed budget of €120.7 billion for the year 2007 and €864.3 billion for the period 2007-2013, representing 1.10% and 1.05% of the EU-27's GNI forecast for the respective periods

   

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   Reserves: 1,27.6 (approx 0.1%)}} Total expenditure = 106,575.5 million

   

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   Total other: 6,056.5 (approx 6%)}} Total revenue = 108,423 million

   

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10. By comparison, the UK expenditure for 2004 alone was estimated at about €759 billion and France was estimated at about €801 billion

    

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11. European Commission > Financial Programming and Budget

    

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    Above data depicted as a cartogram (Luxembourg not shown)

    

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13. The Administration obtains most of its revenue indirectly by payments from treasuries of member states

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    Bar chart showing Open Europe estimate of total budget expenditure in euros for the whole period 2007-2013 per capita (based on Eurostat 2007 population estimates)

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15. A 2007 briefing note by the eurosceptic research and advocacy organization "Open Europe" gave its estimates for total contributions to the EU and total receipts from it for each member state over the budget period 2007-2013

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