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schema:text	Last week, Boris Johnson did not attend a planned press conference with the Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel—with Mr Bettel instead undertaking the press conference alone. Mr Johnson reportedly decided to pull out due to a loud group of anti-Brexit protestors close by. In the aftermath, a number of Facebook posts have shared an image claiming to show that Luxembourg benefits the most from being in the EU, getting back 3,304% of what it pays into the EU by 2022. A couple of the posts explicitly linked it to the Bettel incident. The posts are incorrect. We’ve checked a number of these issues before. A key problem was that the figures for the EU budget from 2021 onwards haven’t been released yet, so we can’t know what individual countries will pay in and get back. The posts use data which they say is from 2018 to try and estimate what these figures will be. There are also separate problems with the specific claim that Luxembourg gets back 3,304% of what it pays in as an EU member. The amount that Luxembourg received in EU spending in 2018 was roughly 105% of what it paid in to the EU budget (this can also be expressed as getting back 5% more than it paid in). In that year, 16 other EU countries received more money—relative to what they paid in—than Luxembourg. The EU budget also spent around €1.6 billion on administration in Luxembourg in 2018. This covers things like EU staff salaries and building costs related to EU institutions within Luxembourg—like the Court of Justice of the European Union. This money is not counted as spending on Luxembourg itself. However, even if it was counted as spending on Luxembourg, the country would get around 460% more than it paid in—still nowhere near 3,304%. Luxembourg apart, the order in which countries appear in the post, in terms of how much they pay into the EU and get back, is fairly accurate.
schema:mentions	Xavier Bettel European Civil Service Luxembourg Budget of the European Union Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson European Union Facebook United States Xavier University
schema:reviewRating	Incorrect. The amount that Luxembourg received in EU spending in 2018 was roughly 105% of what it paid in to the EU budget. 16 other EU countries received a higher level of spending—relative to what they paid in—than Luxembourg.
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schema:datePublished	2019-09-26 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
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