They differ on farm policy, Germany being the big payer, France the big recipient, of EU bounty.In this section Eastward ho!
But the main reason everything costs less in other countries is that other countries tend to have one big payer — usually the government — with the clout to bargain down prices.
Marks & Spencer, another big payer in the savings market over the past 12 months, announced it will be dropping its Isa rate from 3% to 2.75% on 10 December.
Each operates on a relative shoestring compared with the big payers in their league.
He came by his affinity for dividends as a young analyst covering utilities, which are habitually big payers.
Other traditional big payers such as the Dutch are also in a much meaner mood.
Other big payers included oil and commodities companies like Exxon Mobil and a few technology giants like Oracle and I.B.M.
While the Affordable Care Act has been a catalyst for much of this change, employers like Boeing and other big payers of health care, including federal and state governments, will continue to drive it.
Big payers into the European budget, especially the Germans, are already chafing at the cost of subsidising the rest of the EU.
In the past Big Pharma innovated as it saw fit, and big payers (such as Britain's National Health Service, or America's "pharmacy-benefit managers" and insurers), then coughed up for its pricey pills.
