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EU Budget Net Balance: Germany, France and Poland
Operating budgetary balance with the EU budget, yearly, € billions
1 of 3 series is above their level a year earlier
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Palanor calculation from European Commission data on the Commission’s operating-budgetary-balance method (published by the Commission itself through 2020). Positive = net receiver, negative = net contributor. NextGenerationEU recovery spending is excluded. Current euros.
The yearly net balances with the EU budget of its largest net contributor, Germany, of France, and of its largest net receiver, Poland. Germany has been a net contributor in every year since 2000 and Poland a net receiver in every year since it joined.
What this chart reads
- Germany · EU Budget Net Balance (Operating Budgetary Balance) · € billionsas “Germany”latest 2025-12-31
- France · EU Budget Net Balance (Operating Budgetary Balance) · € billionsas “France”latest 2025-12-31
- Poland · EU Budget Net Balance (Operating Budgetary Balance) · € billionsas “Poland”latest 2025-12-31
Sources
Germany · EU Budget Net Balance (Operating Budgetary Balance) · € billions. Source: European Commission, EU spending and revenue (workbook with one sheet per year from 2000): https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/eu-budget/long-term-eu-budget/2021-2027/spending-and-revenue_en. Palanor computes the balance from the workbook (column DE) and re-reads it monthly. Checked against the Commission's published balances (Financial Report 2008, 2000–2008; technical briefing of November 2019, 2017). Licence: the commission.europa.eu legal notice, "The Commission's reuse policy is implemented by the Commission Decision of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents" (2011/833/EU); "content owned by the EU on this website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence". Attribution: European Commission, EU spending and revenue; balances calculated by Palanor.
France · EU Budget Net Balance (Operating Budgetary Balance) · € billions. Source: European Commission, EU spending and revenue (workbook with one sheet per year from 2000): https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/eu-budget/long-term-eu-budget/2021-2027/spending-and-revenue_en. Palanor computes the balance from the workbook (column FR) and re-reads it monthly. Checked against the Commission's published balances (Financial Report 2008, 2000–2008; technical briefing of November 2019, 2017). Licence: the commission.europa.eu legal notice, "The Commission's reuse policy is implemented by the Commission Decision of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents" (2011/833/EU); "content owned by the EU on this website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence". Attribution: European Commission, EU spending and revenue; balances calculated by Palanor.
Poland · EU Budget Net Balance (Operating Budgetary Balance) · € billions. Source: European Commission, EU spending and revenue (workbook with one sheet per year from 2000): https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/eu-budget/long-term-eu-budget/2021-2027/spending-and-revenue_en. Palanor computes the balance from the workbook (column PL) and re-reads it monthly. Checked against the Commission's published balances (Financial Report 2008, 2000–2008; technical briefing of November 2019, 2017). Licence: the commission.europa.eu legal notice, "The Commission's reuse policy is implemented by the Commission Decision of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents" (2011/833/EU); "content owned by the EU on this website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence". Attribution: European Commission, EU spending and revenue; balances calculated by Palanor.
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