Germany was the largest net payer in the European Union last year – (IW). The Federal Republic of Germany paid €17.4 billion more into the EU budget than it received from it. This moved Germany well ahead of France, which came in second place with €9 billion.
The largest payers and beneficiaries in the EU. Where is Germany and where is Poland?
A year earlier, Germany paid even more into the EU coffers – the surplus amounted to 19.7 billion euros in 2022. According to IW, the reason for last year’s decline was the worse economic situation, which will probably affect the amount of Germany’s contribution this year as well. Currently, net payments may shift slightly towards Spain and Portugal, where the economy is doing better than in Germany.
In turn, Poland remains the largest net beneficiary. Last year, it received €8.2 billion more from the EU budget than it paid into it. A year earlier, it was €11.9 billion.
According to IW data, Poland is followed by Romania (EUR 6 billion) and Hungary (EUR 4.6 billion). Next in line is Greece (EUR 4.1 billion), and right behind it is the Czech Republic (EUR 2.9 billion), which has replaced Portugal on the list of the five largest net recipients.
How much does every EU resident pay? Ireland has overtaken Germany
Taking into account payments per capita (not absolute numbers), Ireland comes first. There, each resident paid a net amount of €236 to the EU in 2023.
Germany came second with €206 per capita. This is because Germany contributed €2 billion less in own resources last year on a gross national income basis than in the previous year, while in Ireland the amount remained stable.
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