{"id":120,"date":"2020-02-16T21:11:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/?p=120"},"modified":"2020-04-30T20:37:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T20:37:23","slug":"who-will-get-more-or-less-eu-money-after-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Who will get more or less EU money after Brexit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Charles-Michel-EU-budget-negotations-post-Brexit-e1581854454410-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Fritz Kohle\" class=\"wp-image-142 lazyload\" title=\"Fritz Kohle\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Charles-Michel-EU-budget-negotations-post-Brexit-e1581854454410-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Fritz Kohle\" class=\"wp-image-142 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Charles-Michel-EU-budget-negotations-post-Brexit-e1581854454410-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Charles-Michel-EU-budget-negotations-post-Brexit-e1581854454410-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Charles-Michel-EU-budget-negotations-post-Brexit-e1581854454410-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Charles-Michel-EU-budget-negotations-post-Brexit-e1581854454410-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Charles-Michel-EU-budget-negotations-post-Brexit-e1581854454410-2048x1151.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Charles-Michel-EU-budget-negotations-post-Brexit-e1581854454410-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" title=\"Fritz Kohle\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am in\nBulgaria for a month now following the debate on the EU budget from here.\nBrexit leaves a big gap and everyone is arguing how EU money should be spent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wealthy countries want to pay\nless to develop the poorer countries. Poorer countries like Bulgaria argue they\nneed more money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sure, the Balkan countries\nreceive more in finance than they pay. For example Bulgaria pays 487 million\ninto the EU budget and receives 2,168 billion from the EU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what is not discussed in the\nmedia is that this money finances infrastructure helping the Bulgarian economy\ngrow. With better roads companies like the Schwarz group can expand their\nsupermarket chains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am in Blagoevgrad. The two big\nsupermarkets here are LIdl and Kaufland. Both of them are owned by the Schwarz\ngroup. When I go shopping I find Dutch cheery tomatoes, German sausages and\nFrench cheese in addition to local Bulgarian products. In 2019 the group had a\nturnover of 104,3 billion Euros. Most of of that was generated outside Germany\nin EU countries: 67,33 billion Euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lidl and Kaufland could not\ngenerate this kind of turnover without a skilled workforce and functioning\ninfrastructure in Bulgaria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anti-EU critics will love this:\nthe bad bad Germans are at it again, dominating the EU economy. But to be fair,\nthe Schwarz group reinvests ca. 7,5% of its profit into the groups expansion.\nLat year alone that was 7,5 billion Euros. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The majority of that investment\ntakes place outside Germany. There are plenty of Lidls in Germany. This means\nnew jobs for Bulgarians working in Lidl and Kaufland and the connected sectors\nserving the supermarket chain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Schwarz group could not do\nthis without a border free Europe and EU funding programmes that fund Bulgarian\ninfrastructure. In 2018 alone, German companies invested 184,7 million Euros in\nBulgaria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But German investment in\nBulgaria and EU funding are not the entire story. Bulgaria is also suffering\nfrom massive labour emigration to richer countries. And the richer countries\nbenefit from this outflow of workers and intelligence. In Germany alone 337,\n015 Bulgarians contribute to the Germany economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The brain drain is a huge cost to\nthe Bulgarian economy. 23% or just over one million Bulgarians are actively\nlooking for work abroad. Bulgarian scientists emigrated to the US, Germany,\nCanada, UK and the Scandinavian countries. The Bulgarian administration is\nslowly taking action to slow down the outflow of qualified workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To simply say that the richer EU\ncountries pay more for the poorer EU members is simply not true. Poorer\ncountries contribute to the EU with much more than money: with people and their\nskills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU money helps big companies\nlike the Schwarz group expand across Europe. And the Schwarz group is not the\nonly one. French supermarkt chain Carrefour, UK&#8217;s Tesco, Germany&#8217;s Mediamarkt\nare all EU giants profiting from EU funded infrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU migrant workers help fund\nyour and my parents pensions, take care of the elderly, clean our houses and\nwork on Dutch strawberry fields. Yet too often those migrants are treated like\nshit. They earn less than their German or Dutch counterpart. Too often they are\ndiscriminated against. And frequently they return to their country of origin\ndisappointed by the way they were treated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next time you buy Dutch cherry\ntomatoes remember that the Dutch tomato business also makes a profit selling\ntomatoes in Bulgaria. Or that your Dutch strawberries were picked by Polish\nmigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are a couple of links for\nyou if you want to find out more. It takes a little time, but it&#8217;s the only way\nto avoid falling for cheap headlines in the media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1) EU integration consortium:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Emigration has become a\nserious problem for Bulgaria due to its negative impact on population growth\nand the present shortage of labour that occurred along with the economic\nrevival since 2000. &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wiiw.ac.at\/labour-mobility-country-report-bulgaria-dlp-648.pdf\">https:\/\/wiiw.ac.at\/labour-mobility-country-report-bulgaria-dlp-648.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2)\nDie Welt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;So\nwerden im Helferbereich von Deutschen 2313 Euro, von den Ausl\u00e4ndern 1918 Euro\n(Minus 17 Prozent) und den Ausl\u00e4ndern aus den wichtigsten acht\nAsylherkunftsstaaten nur ein Entgelt von 1647 Euro (Minus 29 Prozent) erzielt.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/deutschland\/article189829797\/Gehaltskluft-zwischen-Deutschen-und-Auslaendern.html\">https:\/\/www.welt.de\/politik\/deutschland\/article189829797\/Gehaltskluft-zwischen-Deutschen-und-Auslaendern.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3) Friedrich Ebert Stiftung:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A huge number of the\nBulgarians who have emigrated over the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">last 30 years are of working\nage. They also have the skills and experience of advanced, competitive labour\nmarkets. This experience would be invaluable for the Bulgarian economy if these\nlabour migrants decided to return.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fes-bulgaria.org\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/images\/publications\/The_Impact_of_Labour_Migration_on_the_Bulgarian_Economy.pdf\">https:\/\/www.fes-bulgaria.org\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/images\/publications\/The_Impact_of_Labour_Migration_on_the_Bulgarian_Economy.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4) European Union, EU budget\nBulgaria:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The money paid into the EU\nbudget by Bulgaria helps fund programmes and projects in all EU countries &#8211;\nlike building roads, subsidising researchers and protecting the environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/europa.eu\/european-union\/about-eu\/countries\/member-countries\/bulgaria_en#budgets-and-funding\">https:\/\/europa.eu\/european-union\/about-eu\/countries\/member-countries\/bulgaria_en#budgets-and-funding<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5)\nTurnover Schwarz Group, Germany:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;\u00dcberdurchschnittlich\nhoch war das Wachstum auf den Auslandsm\u00e4rkten. Die Gruppe ist heute in 30\nL\u00e4ndern pr\u00e4sent. Wachstumsmotor und Zugpferd in der Schwarz-Gruppe ist\nweiterhin Lidl.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/handel-nrw.verdi.de\/einzelhandel\/konzern-und-unternehmensdaten\/++co++c407d03e-2667-11e6-8181-52540066e5a9\">https:\/\/handel-nrw.verdi.de\/einzelhandel\/konzern-und-unternehmensdaten\/++co++c407d03e-2667-11e6-8181-52540066e5a9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6) Bulgarian German Trade\nChamber:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;184,7 Mio. Euro betragen nach Angaben<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">der\nBNB die deutschen Direktinvestitionen in Bulgarien im Jahr 2018 &#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bulgarien.ahk.de\/fileadmin\/AHK_Bulgarien\/Broschueren\/Jahrbuch_2019.pdf\">https:\/\/bulgarien.ahk.de\/fileadmin\/AHK_Bulgarien\/Broschueren\/Jahrbuch_2019.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7) The Bulgarian Scientists on\nthe Move: Brain Drain and Brain Circulation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/260510704_The_Bulgarian_Scientists_on_the_Move_Brain_Drain_and_Brain_Circulation\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/260510704_The_Bulgarian_Scientists_on_the_Move_Brain_Drain_and_Brain_Circulation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In Bulgaria during the period 1989 -1995, 11.5% of the outflow from science emigrated abroad; the main destinations the scientists emigrated to were: USA &#8211; 28% of the outflow, Germany 16.6%, Canada 9.9%, UK 5.7%, the Scandinavian countries 8%.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in Bulgaria for a month now following the debate on the EU budget from here. Brexit leaves a big gap and everyone is arguing how EU money should be spent. Wealthy countries want to pay less to develop the poorer countries. Poorer countries like Bulgaria argue they need more money. Sure, the Balkan &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/?p=120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who will get more or less EU money after Brexit?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-aside"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzkohle.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}