The EU is spending £bns of your money abroad, again

Great news if you live in Turkey, Sub-Saharan Africa, or Asia

What does the latest news from Brussels say about the EU?

There are some facts about the EU which Remain MPs could easily discover for themselves without even having to catch the Eurostar to Brussels.

Over the years we have brought readers some very stark facts about what the EU gets up to, how it spends UK taxpayer money, how it is taking increasing control of our daily lives, and where it is headed. Most of these articles have involved large amounts of detailed research taking many hours or days, with a lot more time needed to distil these facts into readable and punchy pieces.

Sometimes, though, a Remain MP doesn’t need us. All they need to do is look at the public announcements which the EU’s propaganda unit issues on a daily basis.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org digest of latest EU news

Let’s look at just the last two working days – Friday 19 Jul and Mon 22 Jul 2019

DATE

ANNOUNCEMENT

LATEST SPEND

TOTAL SPEND

Fri 19 Jul 2019

"EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey: €5.6 billion out of €6 billion now allocated in support of refugees"

£1.3bn

£5.4bn

Mon 22 Jul 2019

"Humanitarian Aid: €10.5 million for South and South East Asia"

£9.5m

£79m

Mon 22 Jul 2019

"African Peace Facility: African Union Peace & Security Operations boosted by an additional €800 million from the European Union"

£0.7bn

£2.4bn

TOTAL SPEND INVOLVED :

£2bn

£7.8 billion

[Converted into Pounds Sterling at €1=£1.11]

Three extra facts for Remain MPs about the above data

€4 billion of the €6 billion ‘EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey’ fund is off the books. For the EU it is officially an ‘off budget’ item, meaning that the UK’s large contribution to it does not appear in the Treasury’s figures when they show the UK’s net contribution to the EU.
When it comes to the funding for South and South East Asia, the EU says “EU funding for monsoon victims will be distributed between India and Bangladesh”. Yesterday India successfully launched a space mission to the moon, something which it seems the UK cannot remotely afford to do.
The ‘African Peace Facility’ includes “quick funding for preventive diplomacy initiatives, mediation, fact-finding missions” for African governments and it “will also support efforts of the African Union to promote gender and human rights principles and practices in peace support operations.” A significant number of these ‘peace support operations’ involve former French colonies in Africa.

Observations

Yesterday our editor received a call from Brussels, from a well-respected and successful individual who is now an MEP. Coming from the world of business, this individual has a refreshing approach to politics and speaks his mind. During the course of the conversation he observed :

“Ordinary people understand. They are much smarter than many Westminster politicians and commentariat give them credit for.”

We agree.

MPs have access to vast amounts of information. Regarding the question of the UK’s membership of the EU, it doesn’t even take long to get a sense of things. All Remain MPs have to do is show a little interest in facts.

As we have shown above, they don’t even have to read our detailed exposés of what the EU gets up to. They could just read a few official Brussels announcements and it would give them some idea.

Naturally it helps to have some perspective too, and we hope that by delving behind the headlines from the EU we can bring a big Brexit shining light on the truth behind some of the announcements made from the EU machine. This is why we give MPs free access to the largest searchable of index of Brexit facts in the world : The Brexit Index.

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Reader Comments 5

1. Patrick F , Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 06:20:

Dear Facts4eu,
You've missed the point. The EU's laudable ambition is to impoverish the net contributors and enrich the net recipients. Net recipients live beyond our shores and the EU has no boundaries.
As HSBC have helpfully told us: "We are not an island".
Irrefutable!
Ronnie Remainer
Rose Tinted Spectacles Cottage
Denial-On-Sea

2. Sydney Ashurst , Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 07:32:

EU membership is one huge SCAM perpetrated upon the UK taxpayer ( Even the Scots although they might not realise it). The European Union are not Robin Hood, they are the Robber Barons.
Our overall payments will be missed, which is why they are making leaving so difficult.
Leaving without the Withdrawal Agreement means the divorce bill is not agreed.

3. Not4EU, London , Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 07:34:

Sorry to be a little off topic, but our new PM is announced today. Even so, our treacherous current one will stay on until (at least) tomorrow, with her fingernails dug into the jambs of no.10 as she's dragged out, metaphorically screaming obscenities & doing everything that she & the other EUminions can do to destroy the country to make us see the 'error of our ways'. The Duncan flounce yesterday was, I suspect, an engineered ploy to activate May's 'promise' to remain as PM 'if she does not think that the new leader would command a majority in the House' .
So, an early message for the new PM. If he doesn't personally read this site, I hope that those that do will pass on the message & he'd better be listening. We're sick of hearing about a 'deal', with the meaning fudged to deceive (once again) the public. The only 'deal' that we are interested in is a TRADE deal. As repeatedly pointed out, a trade deal can ONLY happen once we've left, & whilst it was possible that the EU could have prepared & set this up, ready for implementation, they didn't in over 3 years.
The only 'deal' on offer prior to our leaving is about our sovereignty, territory & control of our country by laws which conflict with our own habeas corpus. In other words, any non-trade 'deal'/WA is to give away (again) the independence that was voted for in the referendum. That was definitely NOT what was voted for.
We expect it to be Boris, but such is our distrust of political machinations, the cabal may get their obvious continuity man, Hunt, in place. Will Boris prove also to be part of the plot? We'll know if he puts any rabid remainers (we don't believe the Damascene convertions) in Cabinet, & his actions.
He needs to announce loudly & publicly to the EU "Let my people go."

4. Catherine, Dollar , Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 08:31:

Sydney - sadly, many in Scotland don't know that they pay a very lot more than they receive back. On the other hand, a lot certainly do know. We are doing our best to get the message out to those who don't know or don't believe you, but there are a lot of tin ears. The number of times I've stood with a leaflet about the EU in a Scottish town or city, and people walk by, saying, no, no, we benefit from the EU, and simply do not believe you when you show them the black and white.
A lot of Scots also don't realize to what extent they are propped up financially by the UK.
PS well said, Not4EU

5. Adam Hiley , Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 21:14:

Dear Boris first thing You must do is the EU is told we leave, the Remoaners in the Conservative party can do their worse even they are not dopey to bring down their own Government & let in Compo Corbyn

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