Given that France is also starting to suffer badly, one thing to watch is more and more people demanding a cut to EU budget contributions from these countries. Its like 40 billion EUR worth of net transfers. Could make for explosive politics.
Not saying I agree but this sort of argument will be impossible to counter for centrists with the mounting populist backdrop.
Specifically, if you see a budget breakdown, generally things are rounded to the nearest 1%, and the sum of numbers shown often turns out not to be 100% because of that rounding.
It's 1%.
1% of your pay is what?
1% of everyone's pay is just that everyone feels the impact of 1% of their income.
> In the UK's case getting an extra 1% of GDP for free was a no brainer. Its economy hasn't departed from the European average so what was it paying for, apparently nothing.
Except for all the evidence that it has harmed the UK, which Brexit proponents blame on the simultaneous Covid pandemic.