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-mlvyesterday at 1:18 PM4 repliesview on HN

They're also the 3rd smallest net recipient of EU funds per capita:

https://i.imgur.com/VlRkDMy.png


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Jenssonyesterday at 1:52 PM

You mean 13? You have to count the net contributors as well or its very misleading...

riffraffyesterday at 1:27 PM

But that's not really meaningful in a "largest economy" point of view.

Quarrelyesterday at 2:29 PM

WTF is up with Luxembourg on that graph?

It is a tax haven, with one of the highest GDP / person in the world, why is it, by magnitudes, the biggest recipient of EU largesse / person??!

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wowocyesterday at 1:22 PM

Exactly. Which proves that people who keep saying that Poland's growth is only due to EU's money should finally stop.

Another argument: Poland's GDP had already been growing at a similar pace before it joined the EU (but after it got rid of communism).

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