Sweden has the best economy in the EU countries, Britian has the worst. - Polidicks

Bad Spelling :rolleye: [url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/ekonomi/article8164997.ab]Source[/url] Rough Translation: [quote=Aftonbladet]On Sunday, Ireland requested financial assistance from EU, countries in the EU, and the International Monetary Fund. Since yesterday the EU-IMF team visited Dublin with a bailout. While the Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said that Sweden also supports Ireland. Sweden has Europe's strongest economy. The reason is simple - Sweden did the homework after the banking crisis in the 90s. Therefore they are able to to help Ireland today. [/quote] Here's a picture (in Swedish): [b]EU countries' deficit as a percentage of the GDP forecast for 2010[/b] [img]http://gfx.aftonbladet-cdn.se/multimedia/archive/01335/karta_1335973w.jpg[/img] The countries are proportional to how well they are doing economically.

Number 16? Am I still supposed to be patriotic?

FUCK YES ESTONIA AT NUMBER TWO!!l

So...Greece isn't in the EU? Supposedly they were the worst...

[QUOTE=faze;26245893]So...Greece isn't in the EU? Supposedly they were the worst. Didn't think the UK was an EU state yet either.[/QUOTE] Greece is in the EU, look at the map again.

[QUOTE=FPChris;26245912]Greece is in the EU, look at the map again.[/QUOTE] You obviously mis-read my post. Read my post again.

[QUOTE=faze;26245893]So...Greece isn't in the EU?[/QUOTE] Err. [img]http://imagebin.ca/img/fxnzqoC.png[/img]

[QUOTE=koekje4life V2;26245933]Err. [img_thumb]http://imagebin.ca/img/fxnzqoC.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] So all the shit about their failing economy is in the news why? They're obviously far from the worst...

Also, number 16. Fuck. AUTOMERGE. Oh, and the 9.3 loss has been going on for about 10 - 20 years or so.

Didn't the UK and the EU just bail out ireland? How can the UK bail out a country if we have a worse economy?

[QUOTE=BAZ;26245955]Didn't the UK and the EU just bail out ireland? How can the UK bail out a country if we have a worse economy?[/QUOTE] This.

The picture isn't simply "Most/Least money in the EU" It's how much of a deficit in the GDP there is,

Hell yes, Sweden.

Spain is the 25th, lol... my country is shitty anyway and i admit it

lol, Danmark Northwest of Pauland.

Estonia #2. What!?

[QUOTE=faze;26245957]This.[/QUOTE] Wow Faze. Wow. UK has been an EU country for decades. Plus the graph shows how bad our GDP is compared to other countries (We have alot of debt, for example), whereas Sweden has little debt and an economy that's still steady. Germany is the Economic powerhouse of Europe (Biggest exporter), making them one of the wealthiest states, but it's economy is still struggling with cuts and book balancing. Hence the graph.

Sorry, dumb question inbound because my brain doesn't handle economics well: How is the UK's economy worse than Ireland's?

My country's in the bottom of top 5? Fuck this shit! :suicide:

[QUOTE=David29;26246145]Sorry, dumb question inbound because my brain doesn't handle economics well: How is the UK's economy worse than Ireland's?[/QUOTE] Large debt, slow growth. We can simply absorb that because of greater wealth. A rich man losing money fast is worse than a middleclass man very very slowly building wealth

[QUOTE=David29;26246145]Sorry, dumb question inbound because my brain doesn't handle economics well: How is the UK's economy worse than Ireland's?[/QUOTE]This is simply a map of deficits as a percentage of GDP. EDIT: read above post.

Well, Hungary is also surprisingly good (not as much as Estonia though).

[QUOTE=BAZ;26245955]Didn't the UK and the EU just bail out ireland? How can the UK bail out a country if we have a worse economy?[/QUOTE] GDP doesn't tell everything.

What this map shows: [b]Deficit as a % of GDP proves nothing about who has the "best economy".[/b]

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;26246380]What this map shows: [b]Deficit as a % of GDP proves nothing about who has the "best economy".[/b][/QUOTE] Yes and no. It doesn't show wealth or 'bestness' of an economy, only the fact it's stable and/or growing. The UK could still out-bet Greece in an EU Poker game, but.

:smith: Damn it

Now imagine what would have happened had Mona Sahlin and her cronies won the election.

[QUOTE=BAZ;26245955]Didn't the UK and the EU just bail out ireland? How can the UK bail out a country if we have a worse economy?[/QUOTE] You cannot judge a country by the GDP only, you have to take the HDI and the GINI Coefficient into account aswell.

[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;26245783]And Norway isn't on there because we don't fall for EU's "join us and let us take your oil"-bullshit.[/QUOTE] Norway isn't on there because their economy is so damn good they're off the chart :v:

Two things - - GDP =/= "the economy" - I wish we would leave the EU