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Originally Posted by nomadking
"The EU are nice people"? 
The UK gets sent the bill instead, we're unsurprisingly, not so good at claiming back from the other EU countries.
Eg The Spanish taxpayer doesn't have to pay for a UK visitor. It's the UK taxpayer that picks up the tab. |
If we don't claim it back, its no fault of Spanish. If anything it says they are more efficient.
I suspect our many drunken and elderly visitors to Spain cost a lot more in healthcare than Spanish visitors do to us.