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P.M.E.Altham, University of Cambridge 17Policy’ and‘The annual income of a European dairy cow exceeds that of half the world’s humanpopulation’ to quote Andreas Whittam Smith.The EU member countries areLuxembourg, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, France,Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Malta,Czech Republic, Hungary, Estonia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia.In the same order of countries, we havethe per capita contribution to the EU, in £466 362 358 314 301 289 273 266 256 249 228 187 186 154 128 110 88 83 54 54 4541 35 32 28and, the total contribution, in £m218 3734 1933 5120 1205 2604 1420 15941 2098 20477 13208 8077 11133 1689 132684 176 33 554 548 58 223 125 1239 64and, ‘how the UK’s rebate is paid, in £m20 259 177 56 108 34 135 1478 27 302 1224 719 -5097 151 121 7 16 3 50 47 5 20 11116 6and, Receipts from Common Agricultural Policy, in £m29 686 818 934 1314 580 586 6996 754 3930 3606 4336 2612 1847 572 NA NA NANA NA NA NA NA NA NAIt’s easiest to read the data set via read.table() from the table belowper_cap_cont total_cont howUKrebate_pd Rec_from_CAPLuxembourg 466 218 20 29Belgium 362 3734 259 686Denmark 358 1933 177 818Netherlands 314 5120 56 934Ireland 301 1205 108 1314Sweden 289 2604 34 580Finland 273 1420 135 586France 266 15941 1478 6996Austria 256 2098 27 754Germany 249 20477 302 3930Italy 228 13208 1224 3606Spain 187 8077 719 4336UK 186 11133 -5097 2612Greece 154 1689 151 1847Portugal 128 1326 121 57Cyprus 110 84 7 NASlovenia 88 176 16 NAMalta 83 33 3 NACzech_Republic 54 554 50 NAHungary 54 548 47 NAEstonia 45 58 5 NASlovakia 41 223 20 NALithuania 35 125 11 NAPoland 32 1239 116 NA