You are correct, but its not ethnical discrimination. Why's that you might ask?
Because we all live in a different country, with different taxes, different education's, different health system, taxes etc. etc.
Imagine i would get 500 euro's a day for managing a computer network, and a guy from, poland would get 250 euro's for.
Why is that different?
A simple reason, inflation.
The loans in a country are being calculated on a starting amount, usualy quite old. Each your there is a so called inflation, this is the growth of the economy with the raise of the loans, this can not be a negative amount or a country is in big trouble.
Another important part is the education. In modern european country's(Germany, France, England etc.) the education is usualy quite a high standard, au contrait with country's like bulgeria, poland etc. how better the education how more money you get.
Prices are also a important factor.
Imagine i want to buy a bread here, and it would cost 1.50 euro's. Then there is a big chance that it would cost only 75 cents in poland.
That is one of the reasons you cant compare the BNP and NNP of country's in money(Euro's, Dollar's Pounds etc.) But in a Percentage(%), This is usualy calculated with a Index number.
In real life there are a lot more factors that should be taken in the calculations, though sometimes you ignore them as variables and assume there a steady actor.
I find this rather hard to explain in english, so if someone would be wiling to shed a better light on this.
Note: Each country is allowd to decided the loans in % from the last year, so you cant say a Polish worker should earn as much as a Dutch worker. Even though they both live in the european union.
In my oppinion it was a really bad idea to let the east block country's in the EU. Racial discrimination? Not at all, the one and only sole purpose we build ot the EU was to protect the Economy of the rich EU country's. And by allowing the East Block country's a free transport of goods and persons through Europe we cant protect the Economy.
EDIT: Economics arent there to be fair, its a dirty game to get the most out of your own country.
