After the 3.56bn euros rebate is taken into account, the UK's net contribution was 7.25bn euros (Â£5.85bn), according to the EU financial report .This represents around 0.87 per cent of UK public spending in 2011 - approximately the same amount spent on the NHS.
Egypt: The Origin of the Name, Egypt. The Origin of the Word, Egypt. by Nermin Sami and Jimmy Dunn. Over the millenniums, Egypt has had many names in many different languages. Today, its official name is Junhuriyah Misr al-Arabiyah, which in English means the Arab Republic of Egypt.
As in modern Egypt, this was both a name for the administrative center of Egypt, what we call Memphis today, as well as the name of the country as a whole. Egypt, as many people of the world refer to the country today, is a derivative of this ancient name.n the early period of Egypt, during the Old Kingdom, Egypt was referred to as Kemet (Kermit), or simply Kmt, which means the Black land. They called themselves remetch en Kermet, which means the People of the Black Land. The term refers to the rich soil found in the Nile Valley and Delta.