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EU membership costs each Briton £2,000 a year, Taxpayers' Alliance claims
Britain's membership of the European Union costs almost £2,000 a year for every person in the country, a report has claimed.

By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 3:03PM GMT 08 Mar 2009

The Taxpayers' Alliance figures for the cost of belonging to the EU are much higher than the narrow budget contributions reported by the Treasury.

The UK pays more than £6 billion a year in direct support for the European Commission and other EU projects.

The TPA says the real cost of EU membership is actually many times that.

The group, which argues for lower Government spending, says that the true price of being an EU member comes in the cost to British businesses in complying with European regulations, the cost of Government bureaucracy to administer those rules, and other consequences of membership like food prices inflated by farm subsidies.

The European Commission has estimated that the cost of the European project is around £188 for every person in the EU.

However, according to a Matthew Elliott, the TPA chief executive, the total cost across the EU is £495 billion or £1,968 for ever man woman and child in Europe,

Mr Elliot makes his claims in a new book, The Great European Rip-Off.

Mr Elliot said: "The EU's waste, mismanagement and incompetence costs all of us a fortune. It's wrong that these unaccountable bureaucrats are allowed to run up such a huge bill for ordinary people, particularly with everyone struggling in a recession."

Figures disclosed in last year's Budget show that in 2007-08, Britain made a net payment of £4.1 billion to the EU and its institutions.

In 2008-09, the net payment was projected at £6.1 billion. In 2009-10, it will be £6.4 billion.

Since then, the pound has slumped against the euro and since the membership fee is paid in euros, the real cost to the UK has increased.

The Treasury disputed the TPA figures, saying Mr Elliott had not properly considered the advantages of membership.

A spokesman said: "The report grossly inflates the cost of EU membership and completely ignores the fact that we derive significant economic benefit from our membership of the EU."

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