[sebmellen]

EU meaning… Germany?

[realusername]

EU meaning the rest of the EU, Germany included but everybody else is contributing to the common market

[ta1243]

Germany provides about the same contribution to EU GDP as California and Texas do to the US.

The top 8/51 states(+dc) generate 50% of US GDP, the top 3/27 EU generate EU.

The bottom half of EU states generate just 9% of EU GDP, but then the bottom half of US states generate 14%