Quote Originally Posted by Muddy Retriever View Post
As I’ve said before, in the UK and the USA there are significant fiscal transfers between richer and poorer regions which compensate for imbalances within countries. This doesn’t happy to anything like the same extent within the eurozone.
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Really? I think the eurozone do it better than the US if anything. And yes that’s the whole point of the wealthier EU countries contributing more to benefit the less wealthy. Doh!