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Brussels – In 2024, Germany <\/strong>had a net contribution\u2014meaning it paid more than it received\u2014<\/strong>of about 13.1 billion euros. <\/strong>That figure is 4 billion lower than in 2023, a sign of how German stagnation is draining Brussels\u2019 coffers. Sounding the alarm is the German economic research institute IW K\u00f6ln<\/strong>, which yesterday, 26 November, published a report entitled “EU budget and Member States: who is a net contributor, who is a net recipient?<\/a>“. To get an overview, consider that the EU spent some 247 billion euros<\/strong> in 2024, of which 194.7 billion was for member state contributions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to German generosity, Brussels can rely on France. Paris contributed 4.8 billion euros<\/strong> in 2024, followed by Italy with 1.6 billion<\/strong>. On the other side of the fence are those who received more money than they contributed. In first place, Greece, with 3.5 billion<\/strong>; then Poland, with 2.9 billion<\/strong> (in 2023 it was first with 8.1 billion); and in third place, Spain, with 2.2 billion.<\/strong> Well-spent European money that guaranteed, in 2024, GDP growth<\/a> of around 2 percent across all three economies.<\/p>\n

Despite the reduction in Germany’s contribution, Berlin remains the most significant contributor, even on a per capita basis. Germans pay<\/strong> 157 euros more than they get<\/strong>, followed by the Irish with 130 euros per head. The ratio is the reverse for citizens of the Baltic States: there, due to the small population, each inhabitant receives around 500 euros more than what they sent to Brussels.<\/p>\n

In any case, the institute notes in the document that “the net position of a member state says nothing about the benefits of EU membership.” <\/strong>It is an intellectual honesty that distances itself from a simplistic way of assessing pros and cons.\u201d<\/p>\n

What seems central instead is the economic burden on the Brussels coffers<\/strong>. The drop in German payments could become a problem. The main reason remains Berlin’s economic stagnation, stuck at a zero-point growth territory<\/a> even in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Germany’s net contribution is 13.1 billion euros, followed by France with 4.8 billion, and Italy with 1.6 billion. Growing economies such as Poland, Spain, and Greece benefit the most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7891,"featured_media":421436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26267,27103],"class_list":["post-440896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bilancio-ue-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440897,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440896\/revisions\/440897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}