The European Union accounts for 50% of world's benefits payments.

Who benefits?

R.W. Johnson attributes to Angela Merkel the observation that
‘the EU accounts for;
 9 per cent of the world’s people,
15 per cent of its GDP
and 50 per cent of its welfare payments,
CLEARLY this is unsustainable.
Clearly this has to be dealt with.

Enter the liberal left, who point out that discrepancies of this sort are inevitable
in a divided and unequal world. India has 20 per cent of the world’s children and 30 per cent of all
children in poverty – is that also unsustainable?

The US accounts for 5 per cent of the world’s population and nearly 20 per cent of the
world’s prison population: again, a discrepancy that surely cries out to be redressed.

Profligate France,
with only half of 1 per cent of the world’s land area, has nearly 5 per cent of its Unesco World Heritage
sites – and let’s not even mention its cheeses. The numbers only tell the stories we use them to tell – and,
unsurprisingly, some stories are easier to tell than others.

However these wordy and worthy comparisons does not mean that we do nothing abut any of these matters.
Fact - The EU accounts for 50% of the Worlds Welfare - it must be dealt with.