Who pays into the EU?
Who pays into the EU budget—and who receives more than they contribute?
Adding up 2010–2025 reveals the scale of the differences.
Largest net contributors:
🇩🇪 Germany: €219.1 billion
🇫🇷 France: €110.9 billion
🇮🇹 Italy: €58.1 billion
Largest net recipients:
🇵🇱 Poland: €163.3 billion
🇬🇷 Greece: €69.4 billion
🇭🇺 Hungary: €65.1 billion
🇷🇴 Romania: €64.0 billion
These are cumulative totals, so country size matters. A ranking per resident would tell a different story.
And a budget balance cannot tell us the full economic value of EU membership: trade, investment and cross-border benefits extend well beyond money allocated to individual countries.
The chart covers today’s EU-27. Balances equal country-allocated operating spending minus national contributions, excluding customs duties. EU administration and NextGenerationEU are excluded. Figures are nominal euros; Croatia is included from 2013.
Source: European Commission, EU spending and revenue data; calculations by The Data Atlas.
Which country’s position surprised you most?