Alan Matthews takes a look at net contributions to the CAP: http://capreform.eu/how-net-balances-might-influence-member-state-views-on-the-size-of-the-next-cap-budget/
He notes: 'Instead of the smooth transition from the largest net contributors to the largest net recipients as we move from left to right [on the chart], the general picture is now more jagged even if the general pattern is maintained.
The two smallest Member States, Luxembourg and Malta, with relatively limited agricultural area relative to the rest of their economies, now appear as the largest net contributors in relative terms.
More significant in economic terms is that, despite the huge significance of Germany’s absolute net contribution to the CAP, in relative terms the contribution of the Netherlands and Belgium is even greater.'
