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EU gross contributions, 2011: £11,600,000,000
Per day - £31,780,822
Per hour - £1,324,201
Per minute - £22,070
Per second - £368
Time to read title - £4,414
Pages 3, 4 and 5 (UK gross and net contributions)
European Commission Budget Statement
http://ec.europa.eu/budget/figures/interactive/index_en.cfm
Page 7 (EU budget)
http://ec.europa.eu/budget/figures/2013/2013_en.cfm
Page 8 (Examples of wasteful spending)
TaxPayers’ Alliance and Bureau of Investigative Journalism
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2011/06/01/get-the-data-eu-commission-expenses/
Page 9 (Spending on advertising)
Open Europe
http://www.openeurope.org.uk/Content/documents/Pdfs/hardsell.pdf
Page 10 (Taxpayer-funded politics)
Institute of Economic Affairs
http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files/Euro%20Puppets.pdf
Page 11 (Cost of travelling to Strasbourg)
Brussels-Strasbourg Seat Study Group
http://www.brusselsstrasbourgstudy.eu/resources/A+Tale+of+Two+Cities.pdf
Page 12 (Embassies)
Spectator
http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/politics/8965331/the-eus-scandalous-new-army-of-overpaid-diplomats/
Page 14 (The cost of EU regulation)
Open Europe
http://www.openeurope.org.uk/Content/documents/Pdfs/stilloutofcontrol.pdf
Page 15 (The cost of the CAP and CFP)
TaxPayers’ Alliance
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/cap.pdf
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/CFP.pdf
Page 16 (Seven figure CAP subsidies to UK landowners)
BBC Panorama
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17225652
Page 17 (CFP discards)
TaxPayers’ Alliance
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/CFP.pdf
Page 18 (The cost of the ETS)
TaxPayers’ Alliance
http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/ets.pdf
Page 19 (Annual cost of labour regulations)
Open Europe
http://www.eufreshstart.org/downloads/manifestoforchange.pdf
Page 21 (EU vs World GDP)
World Bank
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?display=default
Page 22 (Exports to the EU)
World Trade Organization
http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/anrep_e/trade_profiles12_e.pdf
Page 23 (Tariffs on imports to the EU)
World Trade Organization
http://tariffdata.wto.org/default.aspx
Page 24 (Free Trade Agreements, % of world GDP)
World Trade Organization
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD
Page 26 (State spending as a proportion of GDP)
Eurostat, Heritage Foundation
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tec00023&plugin=1
http://www.heritage.org/index/pdf/2013/countries/china.pdf
Page 27 (Debts and deficits)
Eurostat
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/government_finance_statistics/data/main_tables
Page 28 (Youth unemployment)
Eurostat
http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/submitViewTableAction.do