The next EU-budget: Which side are you supporting ?

[EPG]

The exit of the UK will leave a hole of around 14 Bio. € in the EU budget.

Common sense would tell you that if a country is leaving the EU, the budget will have to decline and that there should be savings.

But it seems Germany, France, Italy and Co. still want to increase the budget, despite a huge country like the UK leaving the union.

A rogue, rebellious group of countries such as Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden etc. (who are all net-contributors to the EU budgets) want savings and are not willing to pay a single cent more to the budget after the UK leaves.)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43169054

What do you think ?

I'm obviously a supporter of group A. The EU and its Eurocrats are a wasteful black hole that are desperately in need of savings.

When a country leaves the EU, its revenue also declines so there are no savings.

Obviously if Austria wants less development in other countries and more immigration to Austria, it should support a reduced EU budget, but I got the impression along the way that Austrians really like Austrians.

[EPG]

Your map is a little wrong, but of course Luxembourg is a net recipient, lots of EU institutions are legally headquartered there and it's full of EU workers, but the money doesn't just stay there because the workers probably come from France/Germany/Benelux or indeed anywhere in the EU.

In fact, a lot of the money sent initially to one country gets redistributed around the EU, not just via remittances, but also contracts to exporters of heavy equipment goods and construction/logistics services like Germany and Austria, and via CAP subsidies to food consumers (i.e. all humans in the EU).